Are Physicians Ethically Obligated to Address Hospice as an Alternative to "Usual" Treatment of Advancing End-Stage Disease?
Hospice care is ideally suited to meet the psychosocial and spiritual needs of dying patients, providing the opportunity to settle financial, property, and inheritance issues; to mend lacerations in important lifetime relationships, including forgiving and asking forgiveness; and to assure a degree...
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Islamic Medical Association of North America
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3516110/ |