Ira Byock

Ira Byock is director of palliative care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life.

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Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Not Progressive
"Right to die" is just a slogan. No civil right to commit suicide exists in any social compact.
Ira Byock
October 25, 2012
The Surprise Question: Would Your Doctor Be Shocked If You Died?
Ira Byock
March 9, 2012
Transforming the Way We Die
Ira Byock
March 8, 2012
Making the Best of What Is Often the Very Worst Time of Our Lives
Ira Byock
March 7, 2012
Moving Away From Death Panels: Health Reform for the Way We Die
Ira Byock
March 6, 2012