ABSTRACT
This paper is the edited text of a talk delivered on February 21, 1994 at the First National Conference on Clinical Hospice Care/Palliative Medicine, February 20-23, 1994 in San Francisco CA.
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Ira R. Byock
Ira R. Byock, MD, is Medical Director for Hospice of Partners in Home Care in Missoula MT. He is also a member of the National Hospice Organization Ethics Committee and is the principal author of the National Hospice Organization Monograph, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Decisions in the Context of Hospice Care.