Asking Kidney Patients to Forgo a Free Lifeline

For many years, a significant portion of patients receiving dialysis have decided to voluntary forgo further dialysis.  But, as reported in today's New York Times, kidney specialists are increasingly pushing doctors to be more forthright with elderly people who have other serious medical conditions, to tell the patients that even though they are entitled to dialysis, they may want to decline such treatment and enter a hospice instead.