Easing life's final choices
Sunday, December 19, 2010 - 00:30
in Health & Medicine
Palliative care is poorly understood, but the doctors who practice it believe it is good medicine.Elvin Flynn is a dying man, but no one here is about to deprive him of his chances to live. He lies in a hospital bed on the seventh floor of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, a fungal infection threatening his central nervous system.