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Health care services and costs
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Sylvia Caras <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:23:58 -0800
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"[R]oughly 80 percent of all Americans hope to die at home [yet] 75 
percent end their lives in hospitals or nursing homes.  Of those, a 
third die after 10 days in an ICU. ... End-of-life treatment can be 
relentless."

      Maggie Mahar, Money-Driven Medicine, HarperCollins, 2006, p 190.


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