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End of life care: Issues and challenges
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Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
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July 1, 2008
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Advances in medical technology, diagnostics, transplantations, antibiotic therapy, and critical care have created bioethical dilemmas that confront physicians while dealing with terminally ill patients who are unlikely to survive. Clinicians tend to be less formally trained in providing good end-of-life care, and some may tend to avoid terminally ill patients. This tends to aggravate the isolation and loneliness experienced by the dying patients. Physicians have a vital and active role to play in providing care, support and solace in the final stages of the illness and, in guiding the patient and relatives through a complicated and frightening process. The physicians need to provide ...
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