The Final “P” in Pain Management
June 15th 2021With a broader and multifaceted understanding of pain, patient care can move from a focus on eradicating pain, as based on objective pain scores, to improving the patient’s quality of life, while simultaneously decreasing pain to a level that is acceptable to the individual patient.
A New Question in End-of-Life Ethics
Patients with terminal illnesses may choose to refuse treatment or even hasten their own deaths, but is that the same thing as suicide?