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Health Care Proxy Information and Forms
February 17, 2015
How to designate a person to make health care decisions for you in case you are unable
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What Matters Most to You? Helping Patients, Families through the Final Stages of Illness
October 1, 2014
Vital Signs, October 2014 - As physicians we want to foster a culture where conversations about the patients’ current and future health care goals are embedded into their care.
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Physician Focus: Planning for the End
August 8, 2014
Advance care planning is the term for the planning we do as our health care becomes complicated and as we need to make challenging decisions about our care, often towards the end of life. Planning becomes an integral part of most people’s lives at an early age, and most of us are always planning...
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Massachusetts Moving to Online Death Certificates
January 28, 2014
Vital Signs February 2014 -- Beginning this spring, Massachusetts physicians will transition from the current paper-based death certificate to a web-based electronic death registration system.
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Facing End of Life Issues
April 9, 2009
End-of-life issues are never easy to discuss or experience, but they reach every one of us at one time or another, whether as a patient, a loved one, or family member.
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Important Differences Between Health Care Proxies and Living Wills
August 1, 2000
Advance Directives, such as Health Care Proxies and Living Wills, allow
people to retain control over medical decisions. Massachusetts law
allows people to make their own Health Care Proxies, but does not
officially recognize Living Wills.
