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Abrahm, JL. Management of Pain and Spinal Cord Compression in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Ann Intern Med. 131: 37-46, 1999.
Back AL. Arnold RM. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: "it was just out of the question". JAMA. 293(11):1374-81, 2005.
Brody, et al. Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment - Recommendations for Compassionate Clinical Management. NEJM 336: 652-7, 1997.
Casarett D. Kapo J. Caplan A. Appropriate use of artificial nutrition and hydration--fundamental principles and recommendations. N Engl J Med. 353(24):2607-12, 2005 Dec 15.
Cassell EJ. The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine. N Engl J Med. 1982 Mar 18;306(11):639-45. (Not available electronically; available in print at Galter Library.)
Chochinov HM. Dignity-conserving care--a new model for palliative care: helping the patient feel valued. JAMA. 287(17): 2253-60, 2002
Faber-Langendoen K, Lanken PN. Dying patients in the intensive care unit: forgoing treatment, maintaining care. Ann Intern Med. 2000 Dec 5;133(11):886-93.
Finucane, TE. How Gravely Ill Becomes Dying: A Key to End-of-Life Care. JAMA 1670-1673, 1999.
Fox E. Predominance of the curative model of medical care. A residual problem. JAMA. 1997 Sep 3;278(9):761-3.
Fox, E, Landrum-Neff, K, Zhong, Z, et al. Evaluation of Prognostic Criteria for Determining Hospice Eligibility in Patients with Advanced Lung, Heart and Liver Disease. JAMA 282: 1638-45, 1999.
Groopman, J. Dying Words: How Should Doctors Deliver Bad News? New Yorker, October 28, 2002.
Irvine P. The attending at the funeral. N Engl J Med. 1985 Jun 27;312(26):1704-5. (Not available electronically; available in print at Galter Library.)
Larson DG and Tobin DR. End of Life Conversations: Evolving Practice and Theory. JAMA 284: 1573-8, 2000.
Lo B, Dornbrand L, Wolf LE and Groman M. The Wendland Case - Withdrawing Life Support from Incompetent Patients who are not Terminally Ill. NEJM 2002; 346: 1489-1493.
Meier DE, Morrison RS, Cassel CK. Improving palliative care. Ann Intern Med. 1997 Aug 1;127(3):225-30.
Morrison RS, Meier DE, Cassel CK. Clinical problem-solving. When too much is too little. N Engl J Med. 1996 Dec 5;335(23):1755-9.
Seravalli EP. The dying patient, the physician, and the fear of death. N Engl J Med. 1988 Dec 29;319(26):1728-30. (Not available electronically; available in print at Galter Library.)
Von Gunten CF, Twaddle ML. Terminal care for noncancer patients. Clin Geriatr Med. 1996 May;12(2):349-58. (Not available electronically; available in print at Galter Library.)
Weiss SC. Emanuel LL. Fairclough DL. Emanuel EJ. Understanding the experience of pain in terminally ill patients. Lancet. 357(9265):1311-5, 2001
Two modules from the Education for Physicians on End of Life Care Project. (Emanuel LL, von Gunten CF, Ferris FD, eds. The Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care (EPEC) Curriculum. Chicago, IL: The EPEC Project, 1999)