It comes amid a warning that too often this phase of someone’s life “is seen as unexpected or a last-minute crisis” ...

There is something essential in the good medicine of palliative care. By acknowledging that medicine cannot cure all ills, death cannot be endlessly deferred and patients have priorities beyond just ...

Furthermore, while many medical schools have a division of palliative medicine (usually organized under a department of family medicine, oncology or internal medicine), some medical schools do not ...

ARDGOWAN Hospice is on the lookout for a new Clinical Fellow in Palliative Medicine. The role is part of the hospice's plan ...

Once a TV war reporter, now a palliative care doctor and award-winning author, Rachel Clarke shares what drives her to write ...

Palliative medicine is also applicable to patients living with other life-limiting illnesses such as end-stage kidney disease requiring dialysis, advanced organ failure, end-stage heart or lung ...

What was already known? Specialists in palliative medicine often require short term, rapid solutions to alleviate the patients’ distressing symptoms and improve their quality of life.

The limited coverage of palliative medicine during the course of education may result in insufficient knowledge and familiarity with this topic among medical students both in terms of the perception ...