NEGOTIATING A "GOOD DEATH": WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HOSPITALS

Abstract

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has also recognized that besides "an actively interventionist medical profession, a deeply ingrained public philosophy of individualism, and a general American unwillingness to accept limits-including aging and death" influence end-of-life care and contribute to the "problem of dying" (1997, p. 47).