Hospice Care

NEW YORK - It was a bittersweet and unlikely reunion.

WASHINGTON - In a story March 15 about hospices being slow to turn off patients' defibrillators, The Associated Press reported erroneously the proportion that had a way to identify implant recipients.

WASHINGTON - If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off? Carol Filak had heard about painful, repeated shocks that people sometimes experience from those implants in their final days.

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. - A 90-year-old retired physician has been charged with killing his terminally ill wife at their Southern California home but remains hospitalized after turning the gun on himself.