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• 12 Apr 09
  

  Compassion in medicine often consists of the simplest of gestures that reassure the sick and the disabled that they remain valuable and are not beyond the love of the healthy and the non-disabled.

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  • Compassion in medicine often consists of the simplest of gestures that reassure the sick and the disabled that they remain valuable and are not beyond the love of the healthy and the non-disabled.
  • Saunders believed that people in the last stages of terminal illness needed places to die in peace and comfort, where the main medical aim would be not to take drastic steps to prolong life but to alleviate pain or reduce it to a minimum by the controlled administration of drugs so that patients remained alert until the end.

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