What Is Palliative Care?

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What Is Palliative Care?

Palliative Care might be a new word for some of you. We might think of it as 'comfort care' or care designed to lessen the severity of symptoms when a cure is not likely but death is not imminent, perhaps many years before the end of a patient's life.

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