Physician guide to end of life care introduction finding comfort and peace at the end of life t his booklet was created to help physicians patients and families family in the broadest sense deal more effectively with dying and death page 2 5 read online physicians guide to end of life. Acp books patients want better end of life care and physicians want to provide it but in a society where high tech interventions are often emphasized moving from curative treatment to comfort care is sometimes difficult often patients in the last phase of life want both continued aggressive treatments and the benefits of palliative measures. Many physicians have never been trained in palliative measures and end of life care it is a challenging area but one in which clinicians can enhance the quality of life for seriously ill patients developed by members of the acp end of life care consensus panel physicians guide to end of life care is divided into three sections containing . A large majority of patients and close family members are interested in discussing end of life issues with their physician most expect their physician to initiate such dialogue end of life discussions however must go beyond the narrow focus of resuscitation instead such discussions should addr . The michigan physician guide to presented by the michigan physician guide to end of life care introduction finding comfort and peace at the end of life t his booklet was created to help physicians patients and families family in the broadest sense deal more effectively with dying