How Doctors Die

Marketplace - Quotes David Goodman, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how The Dartmouth Atlas Project, which gathers and analyzes health care data, found that 17 percent of Medicare's $550 billion annual budget is spent on patients' last six months of life. "We haven't bent the cost curve on end-of-life care," says Goodman.