Opinion: N.J. POLST form provides 'doctor's orders' for end of life care

... life. A humane society does no less. But for a frail, elderly patient living in a care facility with advanced Alzheimer's disease who suffers a heart attack, we often do too much. POLST is that person's voice in the final medical emergency when she ...

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