Americans routinely tell researchers they don’t want to spend their final days tethered to machines in a hospital, preferring to die at home with less invasive treatments. But that rarely happens. Now, a new study suggests the biggest reason for that disconnect appears to be the doctors who treat those patients. Ziad Obermeyer, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the study’s lead researcher. Lachlan Forrow, associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
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