21.   Health care reforms are needed to ensure hospice-type care is available to dying patients.

22.   In plain English, they offer the dying patient an alternative to assisted suicide.

23.   Instead, it wants greater public involvement in initiatives to improve care for dying patients.

24.   It might be a final spasm, the last gasp from a dying patient.

25.   It would appear, then, that the needs of the dying patient are not being optimally met.

26.   Likewise, a physician who repeatedly provides grossly inadequate measures for comfort of their dying patients must also be reported.

27.   Meanwhile, several research initiatives are underway to study the needs of dying patients.

28.   Now hospitals routinely decide to stop treating dying patients, thereby precipitating their death.

29.   Previous studies have shown that dying patients can spend a long time in the hospital in unrelieved pain.

30.   Q. What are the consequences for dying patients and their families when doctors are too optimistic?