1. Vicki Weisfeld is a senior communications officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in Princeton, New Jersey. Doriane Miller, a physician, is a program vice-president, and Rosemary Gibson, a senior program officer, at the RWJF. Steve Schroeder, also a physician, is the RWJF's president and chief executive officer. This paper is adapted from a December 1999 speech by Schroeder to inaugurate the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New...