POLST Can Be Dangerous

Anyone who has entered a hospital or health care facility has likely experienced being handed a POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) form to fill out. A POLST form is different from an Advance Directive. POLST forms are routinely handed out to patients with the intent that the patient fill them out before receiving […]

How Important are Advance Directives?

Filling out this document could save your life. This summer brought news that one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Aetna, will be withdrawing from most Obama health care exchanges in 2017. Aetna follows United HealthCare and Humana in withdrawing, all having lost millions of dollars in the exchanges this year alone. Obamacare regulations […]