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Palliative care, this medicine that heals without curing

They are still too often seen as a falling ax at the end of a course of care that would not make it possible to heal. Without accompanying a sick loved one, it is difficult to imagine the extent of the aspects involved in palliative care. At most, we know that very few patients who need it have access to it, but here again there is uncertainty because the numbers are rare.

The bad relations of medicine, the palliative approach, as its practitioners prefer to call it, is nevertheless the guarantee of the quality of life of many patients living with an incurable disease, and not only at the end of life, contrary to a priori; “For example, we have been following a patient since 2016, and we just arranged everything so that he could go on a catamaran in Polynesia, illustrated by Claire Fourcade, physician at the Palliative Care Center at Polyclinic Le Languedoc in Narbonne and president of the French Society of Support and Palliative Care (Sfap).

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Source: Le Figaro

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