Hospice and palliative care is well recognized as the ideal model of care for the terminally ill.
As the number of terminal care patients has continued to increase in recent years, palliative …

The task of medical science can be viewed from three general aspects:(1) To prevent illness.
We usually call this preventive medicine.(2) To cure persons who are ill or at least to …

Introduction the clinical practice of palliative medicine is inherently fraught with very
significant ethical issues. Patients suffering from incurable and/or chronic physical ailments …

The care of incurably ill persons has always presented moral challenges. For families,
friends, and society, these challenges reside in the burdens of ministering to the decline of …

Palliative care is a subspecialty discipline within medicine, an emerging component of the
healthcare system, and a practice of caring for patients and their families at a time of great …

Ethical challenges in palliative medicine do not substantially differ from those encountered
in other areas of medicine. 1–5 Nevertheless, the recognition of the needs of patients at the …

7 ealth care is essentially a moral enterprise. Every clinical Health car is influenced by the
personal and cultural values of both the patient and the provider, the moral traditions of the …

Abstract In 1959, Victor Frankl considered universal facts of life to be suffering, death and
existential guilt and called it the “tragic triad”. Life is suffering, as Lord Buddha concluded …

Bioethics is about decisions in health care—how they are made, by whom and based on
what considerations. In the clinical, organizational and policy settings, hard choices require …