Discussion 1 Dorothy Glas was a former nurse who had signed a living will expres

Discussion 1
Dorothy Glas was a former nurse who had signed a living will expressing her wishes tha tno extraordinary measures be taken to keep her alive. But that did not stop a legion of doctors from conducting batterries of tests. “I can’t tell you all the tests they took. But I do know that she saw over 13 specialists’. Neorological, gastroenterologists. She even saw a psychiatrist because they said she was depressed. And she told the psychiatrist “Of course I am depressed, I am dying.” When we reviewed the medical records, we discovered that there were just not 13 specialists who attended to her mother: there were 25, each of whom billed Medicare separetely.The hospital said that that all the tests were appropriate, and an independent physician said this case was fairly typical. Among the tests conducted was a pap smear, which is generally only recommended for much younger women, not an ocogenarian who was already dying of liver and heart disease.
Questions:
1. What do you think is the reason that all of those tests were performed?
2. What do you believe is the impact on the cost of health care?
3. What do you believe is the the impact on the cost of health insurance?