Selected Works of JoAnne Reifsnyder
JoAnne Reifsnyder
Research Assistant Professor and Division Director, Health Policy and Health Services Research
Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Health Policy
Voices yet unheard
JoAnne Reifsnyder, Thomas Jefferson University
DATE: June 2001
SOURCE: Supportive Voice, 7(3):1-4
RELATED URL: http://www.supportivecarecoalition.org/SupportiveVoice/SV_Articles/SV_Vol_7_No_3_Reifsnyder.htm
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT:
This article is freely available from the publisher's website.
ABSTRACT:
The voice of the person facing the end of his life sometimes seems to be lost in the current dialogue about improving end-of-life care. This essay addresses clinicians' fears about direct, open communication with the seriously ill patient about death and proposes a lens for viewing the end of life that honors the life still left to live.