ATTITUDES AND PRINCIPLES REQUIRED FOR SUCCESSFUL PALLIATIVE CARE
A caring attitude It involves sensitivity, empathy and compassion, and demonstrates concern for the individual.
Consideration of individuality
Cultural considerations
The practice of categorizing patients by their underlying disease, based on the similarity of the medical problems encountered, fails to recognize the psychosocial features and problems that make every patient a unique individual.
Ethnic, racial, religious and other cultural factors may have a profound effect on a patient’s suffering.
Consent The consent of a patient, or those to whom the responsibility is delegated, is necessary before any treatment is given or withdrawn.
Choice of site of care Patients with a terminal illness should be managed at home whenever possible though in the developed world few do so, most dying in hospitals.
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