That this is the only avenue for hope and that you would be depriving people of hope by telling them about their condition. Quill also blames the practice of teams of doctors treating patients because it distances doctors from patients and prevents individual doctors from being responsible for individual patients. But Quill acknowledges that this is a two-way street. He adds that it is important to get everyone involved so that anyone who is around at the critical moment will be able to relate the wishes of the patient. To many patients, accepting palliative care means that they have given up on curative care and have finally admitted to the imminence of death.
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Injecting a medication that would cause a patient's death. Prescribing a medication and providing advice so that a patient can take medications that will end his or her life. Giving pain medications with the goal of relieving pain and suffering even if death may occur as a result. A quick survey of the TCAW office indicated that, even when presented with the definitions of the two, there was still some confusion. Unfortunately, this is often more than you can hope for.