National event urges Americans to plan for the end

National Health Care Decisions Day, marked on this date for the seventh year, is one in which patients and health providers are encouraged to think about their own end-of-life preferences. The man behind it, health care attorney Nathan Kottkamp, says such considerations have never been more critical. "It's a broken record issue," said Kottkamp, a member of multiple hospital ethics committees. "Ninety percent of ethics consults I have been involved in deal with end-of-life decisions without advance directives." Those conflicts led to his founding of National Health Care Decisions Day, intended to educate the public about advance care planning.



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