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Euthanasia and palliative sedation are categorically distinct, so the notion that we can use the latter to achieve the former is untenable.
Antipsychotic medications for delirium don’t work and could harm, a new study shows. So what options are left?
Headlines pointed to the privatisation of hospital, end-of-life and dental services, but the Productivity Commission’s report is actually a lot less radical.
At least one-third of patients receive non-beneficial treatments at the end of their life. Having a good advance care directive that you share with others helps them know and respect your wishes.
We found one third of patients near the end of their life received non-beneficial treatments in hospitals around the world. These included initiating chemotherapy and providing emergency surgery.
Why have Americans become more receptive to aid in dying, a practice that was rejected throughout the United States until Oregon changed course in 1997?
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.
The assisted dying debate usually focuses on the moment of death - not those leading up to it.
People at the end of life may not actually be the best target for expensive drugs.
Despite Australians’ wishes, we spend more on people dying in hospital than enabling them to die at home.
It’s possible the difference between Australia and the Netherlands (where euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal) lies more in the way we think about what we are doing than what actually happens.
Palliative care is a choice and for some the preferable option.
Most people in western societies die in hospital or in institutional care. Keeping death out of sight and out of mind means few people have real experience of death and dying.
Studies have found that doctors often overestimate survival in terminally ill patients, not the other way round.
Systemic change is need to ensure that patients’ voices are heard when doctors make decisions about end-of-life care.
The diagnosis of a palliative illness in a child or adolescent is devastating for all involved: parents, family members and the children themselves, as they grieve for life they had planned and believed…
Have you thought about how you would want to be treated if you cannot make your own decisions? You may be unconscious after car accident, you may be so ill you cannot communicate, or you may be dying and…
Every year around half a million people die in England. The success of medicine over the past decades has led to a sustained rise in the average human life expectancy: a third of children born today will…
We need to do more to ease the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients and allow people to die comfortably, with dignity, and at peace. This is the issue being debated today in the House of Lords…
Top contributors
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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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Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Research Associate, Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor of Palliative Medicine, Aga Khan University
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Professor, Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Deakin University
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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NIHR Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, King's College London
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Emeritus professor, Flinders University
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Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, Flinders University
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Professor, VCCC Chair of Palliative Medicine, The University of Melbourne
