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  • The Sense of an Ending

    Rebecca Mead

    May 20, 2013 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    More than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s or similar illnesses, and that number is growing as the population ages - without any immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy groups have begun promoting ways to offer people with dementia a comfortable decline instead of imposing on them a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions. An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.

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  • Lessons From America's Safest Hospitals

    Beth Howard

    April 01, 2013 |

    AARP Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    An estimated 6,000 "never events" — egregious errors like operations on the wrong limb or instruments left inside a surgical wound — occur every month among Medicare patients alone. Hospitals across the country are revamping their care programs to stop preventable injuries and deaths.

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  • The Family Doctor, Minus the M.D.

    Tina Rosenberg

    October 24, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Delphi, Indiana

    Thousands of clinics in America have no doctors. The primary care providers are nurse-practitioners – and their results are as good or better than that of the doctors.

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