Robert Martensen, MD, PhD

Robert Martensen, MD, PhD, is director of the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He has cared for thousands of critically ill patients and taught bioethics and medical history at Harvard Medical School in Boston and at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is the author of A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Beware the Hospital-Nursing Home Shuttle

Beware the Hospital-Nursing Home Shuttle

Robert Martensen, MD, PhD | August 16, 2012

Many Americans with serious chronic illnesses spend their last months or years being shuttled from a nursing home to the…