Caring for the dying patient

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 636-637

  Barbato, Michael P ^a  

^a Port Kembla Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Death; Dying; Healing; Suffering

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; DEATH; DYING; ETHICS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALING; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE; MEDICAL CARE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 27644532473     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2005.00911.x     Document Type: Review

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