{"id":2650,"date":"2016-04-21T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:28:57","slug":"having-the-tough-talk-with-your-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Having the Tough Talk with Your Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare wants more doctors to talk to their patients about the tough decisions that need to be made if they become seriously ill or incapacitated. The government is encouraging these conversations before the patient is facing a terminal illness or suffers a critical injury and unable to communicate their wishes on treatment e.g. placed on ventilator.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/medicare-aims-foster-critical-care-talks-doctors-38542055\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026..<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare wants more doctors to talk to their patients about the tough decisions that need to be made if they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}