Ira Byock on being "Overtreated to Death"

People are actually now sicker as they die, and some find that treatments become a greater burden than the illness was. On Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network on June 30 (about an hour with direct MP3 download), Ira R. Byock MD, Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Anesthesiology and Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, discussed the trend of people being "overtreated to death."