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Patients and caregivers often are not familiar with palliative care, or they misunderstand its purpose. Therefore, education on the reasons to make use of a multidisciplinary palliative care team and the benefits provided is important.
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Hospice family caregivers are "second order patients" themselves and require their own unique care needs, according to a study led by the University of Kentucky researcher Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, PhD.
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he Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has red lighted the morning-after pill for teens under 17, without a prescription.
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In the first human study of its kind, research from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) suggests that patients with chronic pain might experience greater relief if their doctors add cannabinoids the main ingredient in cannabis or medical marijuana to an opiates-only treatment.
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Discussing and documenting patients' preferences for care at the end of life does not cause them any harm, contrary to recent claims.
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Many outpatient surgery managers might think that the situation of a clinician sexually assaulting an incapacitated patient is so unlikely that they don't need to prepare for such an event. However, those managers would be mistaken, according to sources interviewed by Same-Day Surgery.
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