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Palliative care 1: Dogs and Guinness on the wards, ‘living until you die’, deathbed prayers, and complicated grief

Matters of Life and Death

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Acute Medicine - The Most Crucial Part of Your Job?

As well as doing pallative medicine, i do have to still do what we call internal medicine. And actually i bring to acute medicine the my palative skills and a almost on any so is an acute medicine doctor. I think that's when it's really hard as a doctor. Some people have er suddenly become ill completely unexpectedly. Sometimes people have been ill and they've known they're ill, but then things take a real sudden turn em. Do you find it, i mean, there must be an aspect of watching people die, and being involved in at with grieving relatives and a which must be quite stressfallen and and and heavy to carry? As well as the good aspects.

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