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Testimony on House Bill 44:Patient
Choice and Control at End of Life
Ira Byock, MD
Vermont House Human Services
Committee, March 1, 2007
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To Life!
Reflections on Spirituality, Palliative Practice, and Politics 
Ira Byock, MD
American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp 136-138,
December/January 2007
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Where do we go from here? A palliative care perspective
Ira Byock, MD
Critical Care Med, Vol. 34, No. 11 (Suppl.), pp S416-S420, 2006
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Improving palliative care in intensive care units: Identifying
strategies and interventions that work
Ira Byock, MD
Critical Care Med, Vol. 34, No. 11 (Suppl.), pp S416-S420, 2006
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Promoting Excellence in
End-of-Life Care: A Report on Innovative Models of Palliative Care
Ira Byock, MD, Jeanne ShieldsTwohig, MPA, Melanie Merriman, PhD, MBA, and Karyn
Collins, MPA
Journal of palliative Medicine, Volume 9, Number 1, 2006.
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Evaluation
of the Missoula-VITAS Quality of Life Index—Revised: Research Tool or Clinical
Tool?
Carolyn
Schwartz, ScD, Melanie P. Merriman PhD, MBA, George Reed, PhD, and Ira Byock, MD
Journal of Palliative Medicine, Vol.
8, No.
1, pp 121-135, 2005.
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So many questions
for guidance at the end
Ira Byock, MD
Newsday, March 27, 2005.
Both sides are wrong in suicide debate
Ira Byock, MD
Burlington Free Press, February 7,
2005.
Contracts, Covenants and Advance Care Planning: An Empirical
Study of the Moral Obligations of Patient and Proxy
Joseph J. Fins,
Barbara Maltby, Erika Friedmann, Michele Greene, Kaye Norris, Ronald Adelman and
Ira Byock
Journal of Pain and Symptom
Management, Vol. 29 No. 1, January 2005, pp.
55-68.
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The Ethics of Loving Care
Ira Byock, MD
Health Progress, July/August 2004.
Spiritual Care at the End of
Life
Kaye Norris, PhD; Gretchen Strohmaier, MDiv; Charles
Asp, PhD; & Ira Byock, MD
Health Progress, July-August 2004.
Aligning Values with Practice
Jeanne S. Twohig and Ira Byock, MD
Health Progress,
July-August 2004.
Palliative Care and the
Ethics of Research
Ira Byock, MD
Journal of Supportive Oncology, Vol. 1, No. 2,
July/August 2003.
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Caring When
Cure Is No Longer Possible
Ira Byock, MD and Yvonne J. Corbeil
The Older Cancer Patient, Chapter
12, Springer Publishing Company, Inc. 2003.
Rediscovering
Community at the Core of the Human Condition and Social Covenant
Hastings Center Report , March/April 2003.
Hospice
Benefits and Phase I Cancer Trials
Ira Byock, MD and Steven H. Miles,
MD
Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 138, No. 4, February 18, 2003, pp
335-337.
Expanding
the Realm of the Possible
Ira Byock, MD and Jeanne Twohig,
MPA
Journal of Palliative Medicine, Vol. 6, No.
2, 2003.
Sens et
valeur de la mort: Faits, philosophie et réflexions sur la responsabilité sociale
et clinique
Médicine Palliative, 1: 103-112, December 2002.
Missoula leading the way in care for those at life's end
The Missoulian, January 12, 2003.
Financial Implications of Promoting Excellence in
End-of-Life Care
L. Beresford, I. R. Byock, J. Sheils Twohig. A monograph of Promoting
Excellence in End-of-Life Care, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December
2002.
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Advanced Practice Nursing: Pioneering Practices in Palliative Care
I. R. Byock, J. Sheils Twohig, J. Emnett
A monograph of Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, July 2002.
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Advanced Practice Nursing Position Paper
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Dying Well in
Corrections: Why Should We Care?
Journal of Correctional Health Care, 2002.
A
measure of the quality of dying and death: Initial validation
J. R. Curtis, D. L. Patrick, R. A.
Engelberg, K. E. Norris, C. H. Asp, I. R. Byock.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, pp17-31, July 2002.
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The Meaning
and Value of Death
Journal of Palliative Medicine Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 279-288, May 2002.
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for download (120 Kb)
Advocacy and Activism: Missing Pieces in the Quest to
Improve End-of-life Care
Ira Byock, MD; David J. Casarett, MD, MA; Jason H.T. Karlawish MD
Journal of Palliative Medicine, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-12, February
2002.
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Improving End-of-Life
Experience and Care in the Community: A Conceptual Framework
Ira Byock, MD; Kaye Norris, PhD; J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH; Donald L. Patrick,
PhD, MSPH. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp.
759-772 September 2001.
Elderly Deserve TLC
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, (for syndicated Knight Ridder Newspapers), August
28, 2001.
Beyond Symptom Management- Physician Roles and Responsibility in Palliative Care
Ira Byock, MD; Arthur Caplan, PhD; and Lois Snyder, JD; for the
American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal
Medicine, End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel, 2001.
Foreword for A
Handbook for End-of-Life Care in Correctional Facilities
Volunteers of America, Alexandria, Virginia, 2001.
The
Outstretched Arm
A publication of the National Center for Jewish Healing, New York, Spring 2001.
The Missoula Experiment: How a small town learned to make
dying a part of life
Atcheson R, Modern Maturity, September-October 2000, pp 60-62&88.
We're
Setting an Example for Others
The Missoulian, April 30, 2000.
Steve's Story
Excerpted from: On Our Own Terms: Moyers on
Dying
Discussion Guide, Spring 2000
Produced by Public Affairs Television, Inc. and presented on PBS by Thirteen/WNET
New York.
Palliative Care
Excerpted from: On Our Own Terms: Moyers on
Dying
Discussion Guide, Spring 2000
Produced by Public Affairs Television, Inc. and presented on PBS by Thirteen/WNET
New York.
Completing the Continuum of
Cancer Care:
Integrating Life-Prolongation and Palliation
CA - A Journal for Clinicians, Vol. 50, No. 2, March / April 2000, pp 123-132.
Responding to Intractable
Terminal Suffering: The Role of Terminal Sedation
and Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluids
Quill TE, Byock RI for the ACP–ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel,
Annals
of Internal Medicine, Vol. 132, March 7, 2000, pp 408 -414.
Testimony
presented before the Congress of the United States House of Representatives
Committee on Government Reform
October 19, 1999.
A Loving Death: Dying with dignity in Missoula
can become a national metaphor
The Missoulian, April 28, 1999.
Suicide Debate Still Off Course
Detroit Free Press, April 13, 1999.
Hospice and Palliative Care: A Parting of the Ways or a Path to the Future?
Journal of Palliative Medicine, Volume 1, Number 2,1998.
Snuff Film
The Washington Post, December 6, 1998.
Congress Can Avoid Another Uncivil War
Oregonian, September 30, 1998.
Dying: After the Court Ruling
The Wall Street Journal, June 27, 1997.
Why Do We Make Dying So Miserable?
The Washington Post, January 22, 1997.
Written Testimony presented to The National Academy of
Sciences
Institute of Medicine Committee on Care at the End of Life
by the Academy of Hospice Physicians, May 20, 1996.
The Nature of Suffering and the Nature of Opportunity at
the End of Life
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, Vol.12, No.2, pp 237-251, May 1996.
Notes of a Hospice Physician
The Western Journal of Medicine, Vol. 164, no. 4, pp. 367-8, April 1996.
Patient Refusal of Nutrition and Hydration
Walking the Ever-Finer Line,
The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, March/April 1995, pp. 8-13.
Kevorkian: Right Problem, Wrong Solution
The Washington Post, January 17, 1994.
When Suffering Persists...
Journal of Palliative Care, Vol.10, No.2, pp 8-13, 1994.
From Innocence
to Audit: Transatlantic lessons on the routinization of hospice
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, Jan/Feb, pp 4-7, 1994.
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Consciously Walking the
Fine Line
Thoughts on a Hospice Response to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.
Journal of Palliative Care, Vol.9, No.3, pp 25-28, 1993.
The Four Things That Matter Most
Simon & Schuster / FreePress, 2004
Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls 
Co-authored with John E.Heffner, MD
Hanley and Belfus, Inc., 2002
A
Few Months to Live: Different Paths
to Life's End 
Co-authored with Jana Staton and Roger Shuy
Georgetown University Press, 2001
Dying Well:
The Prospect of Growth at the
End-of-Life
Putnam / Riverhead, 1997
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Blogs and Interviews with Ira Byock
Living
With Dying - Website and Blog
Almost everyone has
known someone who was dying. It's part of life. While we all have
stories of what happened during that time, most of us haven't talked
about them with others. This site, inspired by the upcoming film
"Two Weeks," is the place to share those experiences and to engage
in dialogue with Dr. Byock and Steve Stockman, the writer and
director of Two Weeks.
Life Force! Dr. Ira Byock is
changing the way people die by changing the way they live.
An article by Stephen Kiernan, author of
Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life From the Medical System,
appearing in the Boston Globe, January 14th, 2007
Video Interview
Ira answers to
frequently asked questions on
palliative
care
in an exclusive interview for Dartmouth Medicine Magazine, Summer
2006 issue.
The
Assisted-Suicide Debate
An interview with Ira Byock by Steve Gordon, Valley
News Staff Writer, February 4, 2005
The Remarkable Value of
Dying Well: Dr. Ira Byock and the Missoula Demonstration Project
The New Times, Cat Saunders, Ph.D., 2002.
Moderated Chat with Ira
Byock
ABC News, June 1999.
AARP Bulletin Newsmaker
Interview with Ira Byock, M.D.
AARP Bulletin, Susan J. Crowley, June 1998.
Five Minutes with Ira Byock
Contemporary Long Term Care, Yvonne Parsons, May 1997.
The Ultimate
Question
NEWSHOUR Transcript January 1997