[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 92 (Monday, July 17, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D760]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
END-OF-LIFE CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine certain 
professional and public education initiatives that are under way to 
inform Americans about appropriate end-of-life care that may improve 
care, ease pain, and help families as the nation ages, receiving 
testimony from Joanne Lynn, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the 
Americans for Better Care of the Dying, and the RAND Center to Improve 
Care of the Dying; James A. Tulsky, Duke University Department of 
Medicine Institute on Care at the End of Life, Durham, North Carolina, 
on behalf of the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Linda Todd, 
Hospice of the Siouxland, Sioux City, Iowa, on behalf of the National 
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; Richard Rosenquist, 
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, on behalf of the Iowa City 
Veterans Affairs Medical Center Pain Management Clinic; Linda Emanuel, 
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Education 
for Physicians on End-of-Life Care Project, Shelly Twiford, Dakota 
City, Nebraska; and Peggy Gulotta, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.