Palliative and hospice care: Why society cannot ignore the needs of terminally ill patients, and their loved ones
In general, death is a taboo subject. Nobody teaches us how to look after a dying person, and we also ignore or overlook the fact that caring for someone at the end of their life gives us a chance to reflect on the limits of our own existence.
Vilma A. Tripodoro - When a patient is facing a serious illness, fear and a sense of abandonment can often make them feel profoundly cut off from the rest of the world. For this re...
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