Medical Mishaps- End-of-Life Planning

A career in the medical field is demanding to say the least- especially involving emergency and life threatening treatments. However those treatments come hand in hand with the necessity for end-of-life planning, which can be difficult to approach for many physicians. As explored in Bertha Juarez' post "Doctors struggle with end-of-life talks", many physicians come unprepared and often ignore or delay this important topic- which can obviously be problematic; and if the physicians responsible for caring for individual patients are to assist in end-of-life planning, then that aspect of treatment definitely needs some improvement. Though, while I agree with Bertha's notion that this improvement doesn't lie in the payroll of the physicians, I feel that there definitely needs to be some additional allocation of resources towards the end-of-life planning aspect of the hospitalization process.

Somewhere to start.

If we've learned anything from Texas state and local government, it's that corruption, specifically in the allocation of power, is present; and while it may be easy to point at the various issues of the state and say "that's wrong", we're not doing much about it, and there must be some solution... right?

Hence the question on everyone's mind: "What's the solution(s)"? and for the average Joe or plain Jane there's really only one solution, a solution popularized by Lawrence Lessig's Ted Talk on Lesterland- to pressure the government to pass restrictions on campaign donations. This would likely have to first be done on the state and local level, and hopefully, eventually, on the national level. Doing this would essentially transfer a portion of the power of the billionaires and interest groups that currently control a large portion of politicians to individual voters.

However, since these restrictions would go against the billionaires and interest groups that currently hold so much power, it would be difficult for a statute to even be proposed. If this issue is to be solved, it needs to be the primary focus of the people of Austin, and the people of Texas. Support on this issue must be an a level that the city and state cannot ignore. If ordinances regarding campaign donations were proposed and passed in individual cities, bringing the issue to the state level would be plausible. and while i'm keenly aware of the American persona of lazy and proud, participation is required for positive reform of our republic;  as Lawrence Lessig said, "We have lost that republic, all of us have to act to get it back."