Melissa Wachterman's guest appearances

Melissa Wachterman

NEJM Interviews

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Dr. Melissa Wachterman is a palliative care physician and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. M.W. Wachterman and Others. Where Americans Die — Is There Really “No Place Like Home”? N Engl J Med 2022;386:1008-1010.

NEJM Interview: Dr. Melissa Wachterman on cultural factors and financial incentives driving where people in the United States choose to die.

This week, Eric and I talked with Melissa Wachterman, a physician researcher from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Melissa used a national dataset of people receiving hemodialysis linked to Medicare claims for older adults who died.