Listen: You Should Have an Advance Directive
On this episode of Social Distance, James Hamblin and Katherine Wells talk with Edo Banach, the president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. They discuss how to create an advance directive and how to broach the topic in conversations with loved ones.
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
Katherine Wells: What exactly are advance directives, and who should have one?
In a nutshell, an advance directive says what medical treatment you want done or not done in the event that you aren’t able to communicate what you want yourself, and it says what person you want making medical decisions for you. And I
