Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Kathy Brandt is a nationally recognized expert in palliative health care, but nothing has acquainted her more intimately with the subject than her decision to seek it for herself.

A conversation with California author Katy Butler, whose new book spotlights the perverse financial incentives that promote overtreatment and overdiagnosis of patients while failing to reward relationships, thoughtfulness, and harm reduction.

Palliative care supporters see this movement as the cure for what ails American medicine.

Patients receiving innovative palliative care services for advanced liver disease at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles wish everyone with that illness had access to the same innovative care.