TE Quill - JaMa, 2000 - Am Med Assoc Discussions about end-of-life issues are difficult for clinicians to initiate.
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near the end of life may face a variety of distressing symptoms. Of these,
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- ►annals.org [PDF] LA Jansen, DP Sulmasy - Annals of internal medicine, 2002 - Am Coll Physicians In the recent medical ethics literature, several authors have rec- ommended
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