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Pain, Anxiety, and Grief Pharmacotherapeutic Care of The Dying Patient and The Bereaved
Ort / Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
1986
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The advances in medical technology that have transformed life-threatening diseases into long-term, chronic illnesses have yet to deal definitively with the pain and anxiety of the dying patient and the grief of the bereaved. Although the costs of protracted illness are now measured in terms of dollars and cents, allocation of resources, and decreases in the social productivity of individuals, they have a different significance when extension of life means extension of suffering. In most life-threatening illness, pain and discomfort eventually impose a toll that affects the quality of life of those, including both patients and their family members, who have benefited—until the quest for cure has become unrealistic.