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A midwife through the dying process : stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life.
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ISBN: 0801855160 Year: 1996 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

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Palliative care and ethics
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ISBN: 0199316686 9780199316687 9780199316670 0199316678 9780199316670 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time. Palliative care offers careful attention to pain and symptom management, added support for patients and families, and assistance with difficult medical decision making alongside any and all desired medical treatments, but it does not include a comprehensive system of care as is provided by hospice. The practice of pall

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