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Palliative care support is not just for patients with incurable disease.  But too many providers, patients, and the general population conflate a referral to palliative medicine with impending death. And because of this, patients are often not referred to us until or unless they are imminently dying. This frustrates the palliative medicine community because ofRead more

a Patient Baby girl G was born 4 weeks premature with severe brain anomalies.  Prenatal testing had alerted her doctors and her parents to this reality, and her parents were counseled that she would likely die soon after her birth.  They were devastated, but their strong religious beliefs kept them hoping for a miracle.  ImmediatelyRead more