PMID: 11913085Mar 27, 2002Paper

Palliative care mobile team at a Parisian university hospital

Revue médicale de Bruxelles
J M Lassaunière

Abstract

Ever since 1987 in France, palliative care is developing in hospitals through PCU and mobile teams. The arbitrary split between care and cure could find its origin in the history of the "cancer war" and in the lack of interest of doctors for patients at the end of their lives. The evolution of mindsets in modern societies goes together with the emergence of the individual, modifying at the same time the perception of pain. This concern for the one who suffers explains the strong requirement to relief pain and to attend the passing away persons. Death is a reality that one constantly tries to evacuate because it is disturbing and shows the limits of medicine. The mobile team within the hospital, including different health professionals, aims at preventing pain at each level of the disease, by a patient effort of awareness among the hospital teams.

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