We used to trust our hospitals. The original meaning of the word 'hospes' relates to guests
and hospitality, the same root as hospice and hotel. However, studies tell us that hospitals …

The first use of the word “palliative” as applied to the field was in early 1975 when the first
Palliative Care Service of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal was established. The …

THE EDITORIAL BY DAVIS ET AL. 1 in this issue deals with a controversial issue regarding
the scope and focus of palliative care. In America, palliative care is a consultative service …

Caregivers of the terminally ill, in particular physicians, feel the need to give palliation a
more formal status because the medical world is often hostile to palliative medicine. This …

Background: the right for patients of all diagnoses to be in receipt of palliative care from an
early point in the diagnosis of a life-limiting condition is now enshrined in policy in a number …

When I joined a small group of citizens planning a hospice for my home city of Edinburgh, I
little thought that 35 very fulfilling years later I should be invited to share some thoughts with …

Despite significant advances in understanding the benefits of early integration of palliative
care with disease management, many people living with a chronic life-threatening illness …

Undoubtedly, the need to provide clinically relevant, focused and substantive education
programmes to meet the challenge of palliative care practice remains high on the agenda for …

London recognized palliative medicine as a specialty within general internal medicine. In
practice this meant that a doctor who had met stringent criteria for entry to the training …

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