Palliative Care
Subtitle: An Oxford Core Text
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780192632807
Subjects: Palliative medicine; Terminal Care Nursing; Hospices; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Emergency Medicine; Oncology; Pain Medicine; Medical / Oncology; Nursing - General; Palliative treatment; Terminal Care; Terminally ill
First sentence: On my very first day as a medical house officer I was faced with the care of a 56-year-old man, waking up from a temazepam overdose which he had taken because of his incurable lung cancer.