Why Palliative Care and Hospice is the Ultimate Gift

This beautiful article was posted to The KevinMD Blog.   It was written by Deb Discenza.

Dear Doctors:
I am writing no less than 45 days after my mother died from a GI bleed from ovarian cancer.  Not once did my mother’s team of doctors mention palliative care.  It was not until days and even hours before her death that hospice was discussed and implemented. Our family was blind sighted by this.   
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