Palliative care should be a time of shared care; when the doctor continues treating their patient’s disease while symptom control and preparation for death track alongside.
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Let’s consider some of the oft-voiced concerns and whether they’re justified.
There are things parents can do to make managing a child’s illness easier and more stress-free.
Condition that affects appetite of terminally ill means difficulties for those who want to show their love through food.
In the week that parliament resumes debate on Lord Falconer’s assisted dying bill, we can expect further claims about whether the proposed legislation is compassionate. Greater clarity is needed in use…
In the last six months Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan and, most recently, Arizona have passed “right to try” laws that allow terminally ill patients to access treatments that have only passed…
On November 4, the state of Arizona will decide whether to join Colorado, Missouri, Louisiana and Michigan in passing so-called right to try laws. If passed, the “Arizona Terminal Patients’ Right To Try…
“I want an untamed, beautiful death. So I think we should have a competition in dying, sort of like Halloween costumes,” wrote Anatole Broyard in his pathography, Intoxicated by my Illness, written in…
Lord Falconer’s assisted dying bill would allow registered doctors to take steps to help mentally competent adult patients to end their own lives, but only in certain circumstances. One of these circumstances…
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Emeritus professor, Flinders University
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Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Health and Social Care Ethics, University of Oxford
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Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Reader, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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NIHR Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, King's College London
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Director, Parenting and Family Support Centre, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Dementia Studies & Education, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of Oncology at the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
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Emeritus professor, Southern Cross University
