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How to Die Well | Dr. Farr Curlin

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Hospice and Palliative Medicine - The Question of Trust

Many Americans are suspicious that hospice and palliative medicine has unmoored itself from the constraints traditionally respected by the profession of medicine. People in our plural culture have trusted institutional medicine in no small part because preserving and restoring health is a goal shared broadly across diverse moral traditions and communities. Assisting patients to die is not a goal shared in the same way.

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