PALLIATIVE medicine is one of the fastest growing segments of medicine in the world today. It was accorded specialty status in the United Kingdom in 1987.
Long before doctors ever dreamed of being able to cure any patient, they saw their task as the relief of suffering. A 16th century aphorism comes to mind: “To cure sometimes, To relieve often, To comfort always.”
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