palliative care

noun

medical care focused on improving the quality of life of patients with serious illnesses, as by treating symptoms and providing emotional support.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of palliative care¹

First recorded in 1965–70

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A German palliative care doctor has been charged with murdering 15 of his patients using a cocktail of lethal drugs.

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"I believe there's freedom of choice however for me, I choose palliative care… I have God and I have good medicine."

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Michelle's physician, palliative care specialist Dr Vincent Nguyen, argued that assisted dying laws in the US state lead to "silent coercion" whereby vulnerable people think their only option is to die.

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They want improvements to palliative care instead.

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But supporters argues the law needs changing because some people have horrible deaths, however good their end-of-life or palliative care is.

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