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Article: HOSPICE ISSUE NOT ONE-SIDED.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 19, 1987
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Byline: Fred LeBrun
A column a couple of weeks ago about an elderly woman in and out of St. Peter's Hospital hit a nerve, apparently, in the hospital's affiliated hospice program.
Constance Battaglia, dying of lung cancer, prefers not to be part of the hospice experience. Nor does she want to confront the "realities" of her terminal condition, and through her warrior-nurse-daughte r Natalina, is pursuing cure treatment despite suggestions to the contrary by various physicians. Now this is a throwback to an earlier, less "enlightened" time when patients were kept in the dark about their terminal illness, or chose to be kept there. But it's worked for ...