Sometimes, these sham hospices deliberately induce overdoses in their patients in a bid to make it look like they're actually in the business of caring for the dying. Incentives matter:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/how-hospice-became-a-for-profit-hustle
Now, hospice care - and its relative, #PalliativeCare - is a crucial part of any humane medical system.
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In his essential book, *#BeingMortal*, #AtulGawande describes how end-of-life care that centers a dying person's priorities can make death a dignified and even satisfying process for the patient and their loved ones:
https://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/
But that dignity comes from a patient-centered approach, not a profit-centered one.
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Doctors are required to put their patients' interests first, and while they sometimes fail at this (everyone is fallible), the professionalization of medicine, through which doctors were held to ethical standards ahead of monetary considerations, proved remarkable durable.
Partly that was because doctors generally worked for themselves - or for other doctors.
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