We recently launched a program, wisely instituted by the Alberta government, for complex care patients. One of the questions on the complex care plan that we helped develop for complex care patients, which physicians go through with their patients, is “Do you have an end-of-life plan?” It encourages the physician to actually help institute an end-of-life plan, which, to Dr. Birtwhistle's earlier point, is really important to create before a seriously ill patient arrives at hospital.
On April 25th, 2013. See this statement in context.