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FAMILY MEMBER<\/strong>: She\u2019s been fighting cancer for five years, twice. She has emphysema of the lungs real bad. It\u2019s gotten worse, they said, since she\u2019s been in here, and right now she is fighting a bad stroke. They are not sure, but they are saying something like it could affect her left side and maybe her brain.<\/p>\n

BETTY ROLLIN<\/strong>, correspondent: Did she leave any instructions about what to do?<\/p>\n

FAMILY MEMBER<\/strong>: No, she did not.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: And that\u2019s a major problem, says Dr. Jeff Gordon, an internist at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Gordon has had dying patients who have not made their wishes known and haven\u2019t realized that some extreme measures are almost always futile.<\/p>\n

\"post02c-endoflife\"DR. JEFF GORDON<\/strong> (Grant Medical Center): Most people think, that is for elderly people especially, that heroic measures like CPR and ventilator support is really effective, and the truth is, in older people with complicated medical problems, it just doesn\u2019t work effectively, so the bottom line is people suffer needlessly at the end of life.<\/p>\n

Ventilator–there is a plastic tube that goes through the mouth into the windpipe, and just imagine the gagging kind of feeling. Now we give high levels of sedation to inhibit that, but that alone, now think of yourself, these people typically have to be restrained so that they don\u2019t just reflexively reach up and pull that tube out, and so they have their arms restrained. They can\u2019t move freely, and think of yourself being on your back restrained, just the muscle aches and pains that you would develop.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: Dr. Gordon points out that sometimes aggressive treatment is a good idea.<\/p>\n

DR. GORDON<\/strong>: Intensive care and heroic measures are awesome when they are used in the right people. The right people typically are younger people that have a chance of survival and having a good outcome.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: Dr. Philip Hawley, who is director of the intensive care unit, says the state mandate is to keep life going no matter the cost, so although doctors think their patients should be allowed to die peacefully, their hands are tied by custom and law.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.DR. PHILIP HAWLEY<\/strong> (Grant Medical Center). We have people who are terminal on aggressive life support measures. Clearly they are not going to survive. We are spending all this time and money taking care of them. They are suffering, and it\u2019s completely inappropriate.<\/p>\n

DR. GORDON<\/strong>: What people need to do is talk about this with their family, with their physician, in advance. If they get a life-threatening illness, a lot of times they won\u2019t be able to. Maybe they won\u2019t be coherent, or they\u2019ll be on a life-support machine. They can\u2019t express their wishes, then they put their family in a bind, so they feel guilty, they don\u2019t know for sure, and then what often happens is the sort of default is, well, let\u2019s do everything, as much as possible.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: And sometimes families disagree about what to do. It\u2019s hard for some to let go, which complicates things further.<\/p>\n

DR. HAWLEY<\/strong>: If we could get families to deal with this we would not have this problem. We feel we as physicians should be able to step in and say we\u2019ve got to stop the madness.<\/p>\n

DR. GORDON<\/strong> (speaking at church service): Lord, help us have perspective. That\u2019s what changes lives. That\u2019s what gives us hope.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: Dr. Gordon, who is also a nondenominational pastor, was surprised to find that patients who are religious often want more aggressive treatment at the end of life than others.<\/p>\n

DR. GORDON<\/strong>: I have even encountered people that are people of faith, and they are, what I think, pursuing futile-type measures, and they say well, we are going to let God have his way here, and I try as gently as possible to say we are not really letting God have his way. We are forcing the issue here.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.(speaking to patient): Has anyone talked to you about this?<\/p>\n

PATIENT<\/strong>: Oh, no.<\/p>\n

DR. GORDON<\/strong>: No, no. It\u2019s a topic that doesn\u2019t get talked about.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: Dr. Gordon practices what he preaches by getting patients, as well as their families, to talk about what they want at the end of life while they still can, and he tries to make both patients and families aware of realistic rates of recovery.<\/p>\n

DR. GORDON<\/strong> (speaking to patient): I just want you to understand is that those kind of things like CPR and breathing machines in somebody that’s got the problems that you have are not very effective. You need to decide whether that is something you would want or not, but you need to have all the facts about it, too.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: One of the reasons conversations like this rarely happen between patients and physicians, says Dr. Gordon, is that physicians are paid to treat, not to talk, which is not to say that some don\u2019t talk anyway.<\/p>\n

DR. GORDON<\/strong>: The person that needs to have this conversation is the primary care physician. They are going to have to call family members, they are going to have to gather these people, and besides that it\u2019s a very difficult conversation, and so we are underpaying them. They are going to have to make a financial sacrifice to have this discussion, and then we wonder why it\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n

\"JillROLLIN<\/strong>: There are three things people can do to make their end-of-life wishes clear: Sign a durable power-of-attorney naming a person to make decisions if they are unable; sign a living will which is about long-term life-sustaining treatments; and deal with the DNR question\u2014whether if your heart stops you want to be resuscitated or not.<\/p>\n

Jill Steuer, who has metastatic breast cancer and has been given four months to live, has decided to stop any kind of treatment and receive hospice care.<\/p>\n

JILL STEUER<\/strong>, RN: I\u2019ve been through all the chemotherapy, and there is no chemotherapy to help me anymore. I don\u2019t want to be stuck. I don\u2019t want to have any extra medications. I want to just go peacefully. The only medications I want are going to be the ones that are going to comfort me. That\u2019s all I want.<\/p>\n

ROLLIN<\/strong>: Jill Steuer is a nurse and researcher at Grant Hospital.<\/p>\n

JILL STEUER<\/strong>: I\u2019ve seen patients who have died horrible deaths, where their families wanted everything, the doctors wanted everything, but it was not to be, and that scared me. I\u2019m not sure they realize that it\u2019s okay to say \u201cI\u2019ve had enough.\u201d Even now people will stop me in the hallway and they’ll say keep up the good fight, keep up the good fight, and I think some people are afraid that they are going to disappoint others if they just say let\u2019s have nature take its course. I\u2019m putting up a good fight, but my goal is not to live a long and painful year or two. I would much rather say at this point in time I want the next four months to be as interesting as the last 57 years have been.<\/p>\n

For Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, I\u2019m Betty Rollin in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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