Medical Professionals’ Conversations About Care At the End of Life Joanna K. Weinberg, JD, LLM UC San Francisco UC Hastings College of the Law.

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Medical Professionals’ Conversations About Care At the End of Life Joanna K. Weinberg, JD, LLM UC San Francisco UC Hastings College of the Law

The patient’s right of self-decision can be effectively exercised only if the patient possesses enough information to enable an informed choice. The patient should make his or her own determination about treatment. The physician’s obligation is to present the medical facts accurately to the patient or to the individual responsible for the patient’s care and to make recommendations for management in accordance with good medical practice. The physician has an ethical obligation to help the patient make choices from among the therapeutic alternatives consistent with good medical practice...

Informed Consent and the Right of Patients to be Informed At common law, treatment without informing patients of the risks of treatment is a denial of informed consent, and constitutes criminal battery. Theoretically, then, under common law, treating a patient without giving the patient adequate information about available alternatives and their risks and benefits, should also constitute a denial of informed consent.

What about giving the patient information about alternatives – and the risks and benefits – of not treating? Shouldn’t this be considered a denial of informed consent? The issue becomes extremely sensitive when the conversation touches upon care at the edges of life.

Within the Space of Two Years, How Doctors Communicate With Patients has Become a Hot Topic

 Oct. 21, 2008“The Right to Know, Then to Say ‘No’: CA Terminal Patients’ Right to Know End of Life Options Act,” Jane Gross, New York Times  August 24, 2009 Death Panels Smite Journalism, Howard Kurtz, Washington Post  August 23, 2010“New York Law Encourages Frank Talk on Palliative Care,” Jane E. Brody, The New York Times

Effective : “physicians and nurse practitioners are required to provide a patient who has less than 6 months to live with information and counseling on palliative care and end-of-life options, including, ‘the range of options appropriate to the patient, the prognosis, risks and benefits of the various options, and the patient’s legal rights to comprehensive pain and symptom management at the end of life.’ “

When a healthcare provider diagnoses a patient with a terminal illness, the healthcare provider shall, upon the patient’s request, provide the patient with “comprehensive information and counseling” regarding legal end-of-life options.

Quick Comparison California Statute Patient Must Request Information “Terminal”..”Less than 1 Year”…(fuzzy) Option to refer to another provider Specific detailed guidelines for patient information Mandate for medical school and CME education in EOL Supported by CMA N ew York Statute Mandatory Requirement with (potential) possibility of criminal penalty “Terminal” within 6 months or less Option to refer to another provider General/Generic Guidelines re information required Opposed by NYMA

The discussion about the Right to Know legislation highlights a not-so-hidden defect in the 25+ years or so that we have been talking about Advance Directives, and the 20 years since the PSDA became federal law: The low use of advance care directives and problems with implementing those that exist have made it clear that emphasizing patient’s rights and patient control over decision making are not necessarily the most effective ways to improve care for dying patients.

Without abandoning the idea of advance directives, an evolving perspective views direct communication about options for end-of-life care as a component of a much larger process that looks at what a “good death” means and tries to define the various domains that are necessary for optimal end-of-life care –the physical, psychological and social supports that are critical to the care of patients at the end of life. These views also provide the basis for training physicians and other health professionals in end-of-life care. The California law mandates this (with respect to physicians). While the NY law doesn’t, its mandated communication seems to point in that direction.

Thank you