The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer.

What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?

We now have 30 percent, for example, of Medicare patients who are seeing doctors who are rewarded for doing this kind of work, like high blood pressure control. So, the Affordable Care Act has pushed this direction down the road.

And in stories, endings matter.

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.