Palliative care aims to not only alleviate physical symptoms, but also provide for the spiritual and psychosocial needs of the patient, as seen in this filepic of a palliative care nurse comforting a patient at home.
By Siti Safura Jaapar and Prof Dr Anthony Cummins
There comes a time when a patient’s condition no longer has any curative treatment, or perhaps the condition was never curable in the first place. However, this does not mean that doctors are going to abdicate all care for this patient. In fact, this is were palliative care comes in.
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