Studies have confirmed that suffering can be relieved and patients can live well until they die when palliative care is introduced early and integrated into the management of serious illness.
In the middle of last century, British psychiatrist John Hinton documented the medical deficiencies in end-of-life care: “We emerge deserving of little credit, we who are capable of ignoring the conditions which make muted people suffer. The dissatisfied dead cannot noise abroad the negligence they have experienced.”[1]
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