{"id":8408,"date":"2017-10-26T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2017-10-26T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T12:35:01","slug":"no-one-is-coming-hospice-patients-abandoned-at-deaths-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8408","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No One Is Coming\u2019: Hospice Patients Abandoned At Death\u2019s Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By JoNel Aleccia and Melissa Bailey for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

WASILLA, Alaska \u2014 As her husband lay moaning in pain from the cancer riddling his body, Patricia Martin searched frantically through his medical bag, looking for a syringe.<\/p>\n

She had already called the hospice twice, demanding liquid methadone to ease the agony of Dr. Robert Martin, 66. A family practice physician known to everyone as \u201cDr. Bob,\u201d he had served this small, remote community for more than 30 years. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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