Introducing Palliative Care, Second Edition

Examines systems of palliative care in hospices and at home, emphasizing the needs of the whole person in dying patients. This text covers ethics, communications, and meeting psychological and spiritual needs, as well as pain and symptom management, including drug profiles.

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This book's foreword is by Sir Dennis Periera Gray, Chairman of the Trustees, Nuffield Trust. It is published in association with the Nuffield Trust. 'John Fry, 1922-1994, was essentially a dedicated, single-handed GP, whatever the changing trends in general practice of the last half century. His was in the traditional mould of one-to-one caring for patients, not sharing responsibilities. Yet, it was through sharing the intelligence of his single-minded doctoring that he helped transform this vast field of medicine.' - Max Blythe, in the Preface.