Steve Pantilat, MD, Palliative Care Part 1: Introduction

Palliative Care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. This type of care is focused on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness - whatever the diagnosis.
Palliative Care is NOT end-of-life care, but rather focuses on providing quality of life for people with serious illness, and a better death than they would have were the physician not to be involved at all.
One in five patients will end up in ICU. We need to communicate with the patients about what they want to happen.
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