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When people are using language like ‘death panels,’ there’s more emotion and fear than if you say you want to honor the wishes of this individual.

Source: GOVERNING | Nation | October 2, 2012



Dr. Susan Tolle, director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at the Oregon Health & Sciences University, on how word choice factors into the chance of success for a state-level movement focused on giving terminally ill patients more say in what medicine and medical procedures they want or don’t want.

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