Suffering and healing - Our core business

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 385-387

  George, Rob ^a,b  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEREAVEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 67649344427     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216309106099     Document Type: Editorial

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