Michael Doring Connelly

Kate Raphael’s New York Times article, What is a DNR Order and Should You Get One ? , offers an excellent education for all of us. DNR...

Casey Mean’s best selling book Good Energy offers a powerful personal analysis of how healthcare needs to change. The book offers...

Thank you to the The Catholic Health Association of the United States and the Catholic Media Association for the Best Coverage -...

This Scientific American article reminds us again about the value of involving palliative care early in patient care. It begins by noting...

Halloween might be over, but here's a spooky headline: It's Never Too Soon to Start End-of-Life Conversations. In this article, Dr....

NPR’s recent article For many, a 'natural death' may be preferable to enduring CPR by Clayton Dalton offers several insights worth...

“CMS to Allow Hospice Care During VBID Extension.” That is the title of a recent article in Hospice News. In essence, it is declaring is...

Many older patients today are not getting what they wanted. Instead, they are receiving invasive--and unproductive--care in the last...

A general rule of life is that when you avoid dealing with a problem, it only gets worse. Take the recent Wall Street Journal article "No...

Sarah Romanelli, a geriatric nurse practitioner, wrote an important article about how difficult it is for families to care for someone at...

Many people have asked me why I wrote a book about end-of-life care. On the surface, the answer is simple: I've been passionate about...

When the American healthcare system is confronted with a gravely ill elderly patient, its default response is often to use high-tech...

I believe that to avoid unnecessary suffering and spending at the end of life, each of us needs to take more responsibility for how we...

Two groups, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Deprescribing Task Force and the Choosing Wisely initiative, have...

According to this groundbreaking research article from the physicians at MD Anderson, we can enhance palliative care in two key ways: 1-...

The more sophisticated our society becomes, the more we resist death. Our medical care models are overly rigid and controlling and fail...

The seed for this book was planted in 1982 while I served on the Board of one of the first Hospices in the US. In those days, Hospice...