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• n  remedy that alleviates pain without curing
• s  moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

• Advances in palliative care mean that those last years of life do not have to be a moral, medical and financial nightmare.
• Obama's gut reaction was to go against his normal palliative impulse and to challenge the general instead.
• Still, palliative care specialists who have administered terminal sedation say that choosing to do so is rarely a difficult decision for suffering patients or their families.

• alleviant
• alleviator
• alleviative
• alleviatory
• lenitive
• mitigative
• mitigatory

News & Articles

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• ANN ARBOR: Names In The News
  — The Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Michigan (HPCAM) named Arbor Hospice President and CEO Gloria D. Brooks chair of its Board of Directors during its recent annual conference.
  June 26, 2013 - Ann Arbor Journal
• New Hospice board members chosen
  NEW HARTFORD >> Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. has added two new members to its board of directors. They are Justin Wilcox, assistant professor at Mohawk Valley Community College, and Melanie Greene, retired R.N.
  June 24, 2013 - The Oneida Daily Dispatch
• Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Pediatrics Volume 59, Issue 07: Palliative Care for Children.
  Blaine Pitts, MD, Pediatric Palliative Care Physician, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, and Director, Pediatric Care Program, Cornerstone Hospice, Orlando, FL, presented on the following topics: What is palliative care really?, Essentials of pediatric palliative care (PPC), Myths about PPC, Criteria for referral, Physical and medical elements of PPC, Nonphysical elements of PPC, Facts and ...
  June 19, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Holmes Morton in CNN International
  She is not expected to recover much function, if any,Morton said. "Hers is almost a case of palliative care."
• Lula da Silva in Xinhua
  A crisis of such magnitude will not be overcome with palliative measures,Lula said in an addressed delivered at the general debate of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. "Mechanisms for both prevention and control are...
• Brian Mulroney in Times Online
  My attitude is if the science and the doctors suggest that the best palliative care and the way to relieve pain and suffering is medical marijuana then that's something I'm open to because there's no difference between that and morphine when it... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA PR-USA.net (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.pr-usa.net/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D45561%26Itemid%3D88&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH-vFnE3Xfa-yNxqWw9WScqviJh_Q Nov 25, 2007 71821 95994 pallid Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian Prime Minister, said: Ronald Reagan does not enter history tentatively. He does so with certainty and panache. At home and on the world stage, his were not the pallid etchings of a timorous politician. They were...