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Palliative care
palliative care:
Dr. Robert Fried (center), with social worker Lisa Lahrs and nurse practitioner Linda Theuerkorn, is leading NCMC’s palliative care department, a growing segment of medicine that provides support and comfort to seriously ill patients.
intensive comfort treatment By Carl Simmons
Serious, debilitating illness doesn’t just affect patients. It affects families and everyone who cares about the person is suffering. Often, both patients and caregivers feel like they’re walking through a tunnel with only one possible set of options. The palliative care team at North Colorado Medical Center, however, suggests that a better way is possible – or rather, a variety of better ways. 24
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