Cancer

From Cure to Care - Palliative Care Dilemmas in General Practice

David Jeffrey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

148 Seiten

2000 | New edition
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-898507-83-3 (ISBN)

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An ethical explanation of the issues surrounding medical decision-making at the transition points between curative, palliative and terminal care in patients with advanced cancer. An explanation is given of the difficulties arising at diagnosis and in giving a prognosis.

When a patient needs specialised palliative care, the GP can lose touch, and can feel divorced from the palliative care system. How do GPs cope with giving bad news, and with counselling relatives? How do they see their role within the multiprofessional palliative care framework? How much should GPs be expected to know about the details of palliative drug treatments? How can busy GPs provide continuity of care to patients who choose to die at home? Using many actual quotes from practising GPs, this book highlights the dilemmas faced by GPs struggling to provide high standards of palliative care in the community.

Listening to the general practitioner's tale; the boundaries of palliative care; palliative chemotherapy and quality of life; difficulties in communicating with patients; relief of pain and suffering; supporting the relatives and carers; practical issues; sources of stress for doctors; frameworks for decision-making; parnerships in palliative care.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.2000
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	180 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
ISBN-10	1-898507-83-X / 189850783X
ISBN-13	978-1-898507-83-3 / 9781898507833
Zustand	Neuware