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They don\u2019t want to be on life support systems.\u201d Yet most doctors never have honest end-of-life discussions with their patients. Dr. VJ Periyakoil, director of palliative care education and training at Stanford University School of Medicine, has created <a href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/letter.html\">the Stanford Letter Project<\/a>\u00a0 to help patients and families express for their doctors what matters most to them at the end of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe really need to free dying from the hospital and take it back into the community where it belongs,\u201d said Dr. VJ Periyakoil, director of palliative care education and training at Stanford University School of Medicine.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/06\/10\/january-15-2016-doctors-and-end-of-life-discussions\/28640\/\" class=\"more\">More <span 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