Imagining Medicare Part Q

This is an extraordinary opinion piece:

Imagine a Medicare ‘Part Q’ for Quality at the End of Life

By Katy Butler December 9, 2015 New York Times

(Katy Butler is the author of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death” and the administrator of the Slow Medicine group on Facebook.)

The article is on the 2016 Class syllabus. 

Here are some references:

Katy Butler: Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death. Scribner; Reprint edition (June 10, 2014) 
Notes on Knocking on Heaven's Door  .

Muriel Gillick (Interview): Caring for the frail, demented and dying. (Prolonging life at the expense of its quality can rob elderly people of peaceful, meaningful years.)  http://kohd-wc.blogspot.com/search/label/Gillick

Amy Berman.  The Niagara Falls Trajectory . https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2012/09_14_2012/story3.htm

Veterans Association Home Based Primary Care Program.

http://www.va.gov/geriatrics/guide/longtermcare/home_based_primary_care.asp

Katy Butler’s Slow Medicine Public Face Book Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/108731512508516/?fref=nf