Just good care? The palliative care of those with non-malignant disease
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Palliative care is not just for those who are dying.
And so at our next appointment we were greeted by two paediatricians who wanted to talk to us. They asked us what was going on. It felt natural to tell them our story. They listened intently, and I realised the purpose of this questioning much later: they wanted to get a sense of us first. “What would you like to happen?” I choked up in tears. I hadn’t told anyone about my wish to meet her, to ...
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A nurse wishes her son and family had received it after his cancer diagnosis.
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عنوان ژورنال: Palliative Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0269-2163,1477-030X
DOI: 10.1177/0269216313504058