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Domiciliary Palliative Care: A Handbook for Family Doctors and Community Nurses
by Derek Doyle, 149 pp, ISBN 0-19-262489-X, Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1994.
James D. Plumb, MD, Reviewer
Department of Family Medicine Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, Pa
Arch Fam Med. 1996;5(9):536.
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The World Health Organization has attempted to raise the global consciousness of palliative care, and the demand for training in palliative medicine has grown as a result of a rapidly expanding population of patients dying with unrelieved suffering. In the last decade, existing palliative care programs have had only nominal physician participation, in part because of a lack of training in and understanding of the principles of palliative medicine.
Dr Doyle, medical director of Saint Columba's Hospice in Edinburgh, has been a leader in developing the understanding and skills that have allowed the care of the dying patient to become a clinical discipline with its own educational content. In this fine distillation of a wealth of material on palliative care, Doyle has taken aspects of this discipline and produced an easily readable guide and reference for all physicians, especially primary care physicians and nursing staff, who desire to provide compassionate
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