PMID: 3768616Oct 1, 1986Paper

Care of the dying. Symptom control

British Journal of Hospital Medicine
R G Twycross

Abstract

Symptom relief in patients close to death is an important and challenging part of most doctors' lives. It is difficult sometimes to accept that the battle for life has effectively been lost, and that life-sustaining measures are becoming progressively more futile and increasingly more burdensome.

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