Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying
BMJPublished 13 April 2002Open access
D. Clark
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The challenge facing doctors to balance technical intervention with a humanistic approach to their dying patients is examined by David Hart.
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Palliative care has encouraged medicine to be gentler in its acceptance of death, yet medical services in general continue to regard death as something to be resisted, postponed, or avoided. David Clark examines the challenge facing doctors to balance technical intervention with a humanistic approach to their dying patients.
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