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Article: DOCS NOT TRAINED IN DEATH MEDICAL TEXTS COME UP SHORT.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2000
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Top medical textbooks generally don't include enough information on how to care for patients at the end of their lives, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Previous studies have concluded that many patients die in pain unnecessarily or in hospitals rather than at home. Inadequate training has been blamed for the deficient care - and doctors have reported increasing anxiety about treating dying patients.
''The information exists, but it's not being relayed'' to medical students, said Dr. Michael Rabow, the study's lead author and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. ''Pain ...