Not Dead Yet News & Commentary: Diane Coleman's Plenary Remarks at Adv. Care Planning and 'End of Life' Conference on May 31: Diane calls the disability perspective a Quest for Balance because "advance care planning has developed under the false premise that the primary or only problem is overtreatment of dying people. A balanced approach would also address the problem of undertreatment of people who may or may not be terminally ill. I want to emphasize that while the disability community may be most sensitive to this problem, it affects everyone who may find themselves on the patient end of the health care system."
She highlights a recent study in the Journal of Emergency Medicine in which researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center surveyed responses from more than 700 physicians in 34 states and found that over 50% of physicians misinterpreted a living will as having a "do not resuscitate" (DNR) order when it did not. About the same percentage over-interpreted DNR orders as meaning no treatment except "comfort care" or "end-of-life" care."
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