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Palliative Care and Ethics

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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 palliative care and hospice is filled with sometimes overt (requests for hastened death in an environment where such acts are legally prohibited) and other times covert (the delay in palliative care referral because the health care team believes it will undermine disease directed treatment) ethical issues.

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OXFORD UNIV PR

Bisac Major Subject

Philosophy

Bisac Minor Subject

Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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Paperback

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Length

9.1 Inches

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EAN

Width

6.1 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

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1.0 Inches

ISBN 10

0190604441

Weight

1.05 Pounds

Book EAN

9780190604448

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Adults

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