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palliative care |
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palliative care (paˑ·lē·ā·tiv kerˑ), n an approach to health care that is concerned primarily with attending to physical and emotional comfort rather than effecting a cure. palliative care Medtalk Care provided to a Pt, optimizing quality of remaining life and offering support and guidance to the Pt and family How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The importance of properly negotiated hospice care contracts and high-quality hospice care services cannot be overstated. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $1 million for the care of patients and their families by the Hospice Care Network and is one of the organization's most successful fundraising events. I have given many speeches on hospice care, and taught many classes to health-care professionals of every type about hospice and their own responsibility to practice what Freeman reports a physician from Scotland once said--"There are three things you need to practice good palliative care: a pair of ears to listen with, a butt to sit on, and a mouth to keep shut. |
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