Active treatment of patients with “incurable disease”: what’s the point?

What is active treatment of patients with “incurable disease”? I believe that it is not limited to the care of the patients’ symptoms, but goes further. We can and must control pain, breathlessness, nausea and vomiting, intestinal obstruction, insomnia… but something else remains for us to face, som...

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Autor principal: Goisis, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2012
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23336062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12682-012-0113-2
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description What is active treatment of patients with “incurable disease”? I believe that it is not limited to the care of the patients’ symptoms, but goes further. We can and must control pain, breathlessness, nausea and vomiting, intestinal obstruction, insomnia… but something else remains for us to face, something paradoxically made more evident by the absence of symptoms: the patients’ emotional suffering, suffering deep in their heart, the most hidden, but which becomes apparent in the season of death. So, what can we do? We must be able to understand their needs and to stay with them, protecting the uniqueness of their person in the face of an imminent death.
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spelling pubmed-35460702013-01-16 Active treatment of patients with “incurable disease”: what’s the point? Goisis, A. J Med Person Original Article What is active treatment of patients with “incurable disease”? I believe that it is not limited to the care of the patients’ symptoms, but goes further. We can and must control pain, breathlessness, nausea and vomiting, intestinal obstruction, insomnia… but something else remains for us to face, something paradoxically made more evident by the absence of symptoms: the patients’ emotional suffering, suffering deep in their heart, the most hidden, but which becomes apparent in the season of death. So, what can we do? We must be able to understand their needs and to stay with them, protecting the uniqueness of their person in the face of an imminent death. Springer Milan 2012-03-09 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3546070/ /pubmed/23336062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12682-012-0113-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2012 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546070/
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