More Hospitals Offer Palliative Care, with Focus On Life Quality
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › November 05, 2008
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In the mid-1980s, oncologist David Weissman began to realize that modern medicine was failing some patients, prolonging ineffective treatments that caused needless suffering.
Weissman, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, eventually would become part of a small group of doctors at the forefront of a new medical specialty -- palliative care.See the full content of this document
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More Hospitals Offer Palliative Care, with Focus On Life Quality
The specialty focuses on improving the quality of life and care for patients with serious or chronic illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease and Parkinson's. That can range from coordinating care among different specialists to alleviating pain and other symptoms to helping patients and families make difficult decisions on goals for treatment.
"The easy thing is to keep treating (the patien...See the full content of this document
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