Publications by authors named "David B Doolittle"
Article Synopsis
- Palliative care helps people with serious illnesses feel better and cope, but we need to learn more about how it does this.
- Experts from different fields like medicine, psychology, and social work came together at a seminar to discuss the emotional parts of palliative care.
- They plan to share their findings in a series of articles to help improve how we support patients and their families in the future.
Relationships of care for those facing illness are inherent to the practice of medicine. Palliative care provides interpersonal space to patients and families that helps them face serious illness and dying. We consider therapeutic holding uniquely critical in palliative care but see it as applying in varied forms throughout medicine.
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