10/29/2014
"Palliative care... involves providing comfort and relief as a companion to curative care, offering options to patients and their families, improving quality of life, and respecting choices."
Mrs. G., a woman in her 50s, had been receiving disease-directed care for her breast cancer, but her condition reached a point where the treatment was not only failing to have the desired effect, but was also greatly limiting her quality of life. The...