Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand the woefully inadequate experience of death in society today, we must understand how our medical and cultural experience of dying has changed dramatically over the previous century...
...third major factor is the lack of medical education and training in end-of-life care. The eight-year, $20 million Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT), the largest, most rigorous study ever of the experiences of patients facing the end of life, confirmed our worst anxieties. Its main finding was that communication between health care professionals and terminally ill patients was horrendously insufficient. As a result, physicians often knew very little about their patients preferences for end-of-life care, and were reluctant to discuss the topic...
...sensitive and difficult questions which we will all have to come to terms with in the future. Our first priority now should be to recognize the need for open, balanced discourse on these issues and to take the time to explore our own feelings and understand this complex debate from many perspectives so that we can make an informed decision...
...really understand how investment works without having to really risk a lot of money by yourself," he added...
...national park in the whole world," before the chain saws get there too. He wants them to become as excited about the project as he is, rather than have the impetus come from outside. Behind this goal lies a philosophy that runs through Cox's work: helping native people understand the wealth of their heritage so that they will want to preserve it rather than sell it. Since it's no less than Nafanua who is urging them on, that seems a reasonable goal...