Why Do Black Patients Get Unwanted End-of-Life Care?

Why Do Black Patients Get Unwanted End-of-Life Care? – TIME Healthland: Researchers found that black and white patients tended to have end-of-life discussions with their doctors with equal frequency, yet black patients were less likely than whites to understand that their disease was terminal. Black patients also tended to ask for burdensome life-prolonging care more often than whites, and were less likely to have do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders following discussions with caregivers. What's more, black patients with DNR orders were just as likely as black patients without DNR orders to receive life-prolonging end-of-life care.

Editor: Maybe it's what THEY want, not what YOU want.