A Challenge for the Hospice Movement
- 3 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 302 (1) , 53-55
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198001033020111
Abstract
The term hospice originally designated the way stations or refuges where medieval pilgrims were sheltered, fed, and protected during their arduous journey to the Holy Lands. Today, the hospice is a resource for the patient with terminal cancer.The hospice movement has offered outstanding support to the patient dying of cancer. The care of such patients is not ideally carried out in the hospital, which is geared to curing the acutely ill. Many dying cancer patients have been overtreated in hospitals1 and deprived of the support of their loved ones. These deficiencies in the care of cancer patients were recognized . . .Keywords
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