Ira Byock
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first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
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For uh uh continuous home care.
All of these things we could create data for today.
I'm sorry, we don't need any other studies to do that.
And I'm you hear the agitation of advice because I've been trying to, I've been, and you signed, Eric, uh a statement called Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care.
It's gonna be published uh as a special report in JPM in, I hope, in May.
With
As of today, two hundred and seventy-nine I think uh HPM physician colleagues signatures, including twenty-one of the living past presidents of the academy.
For 30 years, nobody from our field, from our discipline has created any sort of seal of approval or any sort of clear, transparent parameters for referring physicians or for discharge planners to to refer to.
We could have done this for decades and we today still haven't done it.
And I can just say two things.
One is um be wary whenever anybody says, oh, it's so complex, we really don't know what to do.
That's become a dodge.
I practiced emergency medicine for a lot of years.
And um and a lot of people come in, you know, if they're an extremist, uh it may be complex, but you find a way to take action.
Right?
And I would suggest that given what we know uh
In what's come out in the data recently about quality and hospice care, we we should act as if we're in extremis.
And there are some things that we can put in place, frankly, tomorrow, to give um uh discharge planners uh some some parameters to look at, but also to provide some guidance as the field to the auditors, the accountability community, the legislature.
Legislators and others, we could do this right now.
I would only suggest that star ratings, everybody keeps looking for something for CMS to do or for Congress to do.
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