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How to Die Well | Dr. Farr Curlin

The Thomistic Institute

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Palliative Medicine and Dying Well

Physicians cannot return LC to the state of health he had for his diagnosis. But if they helped him go from a state of nausea and constipation, insomnia,. racking pain, to tolerating food and moving his bowels then they will have contributed objectively toLC's health. By treating and relieving these disabling conditions, palliative medicine helps to restore that measure of health which patients need in order to participate in dying well.

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