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Dilemmas in Palliation

Year: 2012

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: The term ‘palliation’ by Latin origin meaning ‘cloaking’ (Stolberg, 2007) of symptoms of disease would seem to be most relevant at the end-of-life. However, palliation by essence does not preclude the use of ‘cloaking‘ at other time-points of disease management, wherein a pallaitive approach may provide deep insight into realistic goals of medicine and consequently result in long-lasting changes in individual patient care. Additionally the dilemmas in applying the essence of the palliative care model to the art of medicine as a whole may lead to substandard medical care out of ignorance. The present chapter will attempt to cover some of the different aspects/dilemmas in palliation from this author’s perspective.

Source: InTech eBooks

DOI: 10.5772/29553

Author: Deepak Gupta

Institutions: Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center

Language: English

Topic: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Wayne State University