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CBS' other in-house physician also filed, Jennifer Ashton's senior Jon LaPook. Although LaPook claimed he had uncovered a "controversial" new study, that sounded like hype since he never explained what that controversy might be.
The study analyzed patients in the terminal stages of dementia--those who cannot speak six words at a time and who are completely dependent on another's care. It concluded that their life expectancy averaged 16 months and that they received too little palliative care. The solution, according to Dying from Dementia, an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that such patients should be cared for by a hospice not with "extraordinary measures like feeding tubes and emergency room visits."
Since when has something so obviously humane been deemed controversial?
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