Besides the inherent bias against treatment, the disability community is deeply concerned about the inappropriate use of POLST on people with disabilities who are nowhere near dying. John Kelly described his experience with MOLST (the Massachusetts version of POLST) in his recent online response to a survey by the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Approaching Death. So Shute contacted John when she was preparing her article for NPR’s Thanksgiving edition.
via John Kelly Quoted in NPR Thanksgiving Day Article on POLST.
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