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Palliative care is about life, not death

Palliative care is about life, not death

Medicine and Science from The BMJ

March 3, 201714m 53s

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Show Notes

Scott Murray, professor of primary palliative care at the University of Edinburgh, has written, and talked in this podcast before, about the benefits of early palliative care - and today he’s back to explain how illness trajectory, and the pattern of decline at the end of life, affects 4 main areas of wellness - physical, social, psychological and spiritual or existential. Read his full analysis article:

http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j878