Improving our care at life's end: making a difference.
Health and Social Work › Vol. 29 Nbr. 1, February 2004
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Improving our care at life's end: making a difference.
Although there are few human experiences as profound and universal as the end of life, we are only beginning to create a health care system that will allow people to die as they wish, with dignity and with as little pain as possible. The challenges to creating that system are attitudinal, financial, clinical, and emotional. Despite increasing public discussion about end-of-life care, many people are uncomfortable thinking about their own deaths or the deaths of those they love. Talking openly about this is even harder. Beyond emotional barriers lie practica...
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