1. Grams.
- Author
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Dean, Charity and Young, Roxanne K.
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PAIN management , *GRANDMOTHERS , *INTERGENERATIONAL relations , *RIGHT to die , *MEDICAL ethics , *MEDICAL students , *TERMINAL care , *TERMINALLY ill , *DEATH - Abstract
Offers the author's thoughts on being called away from medical school to sit with 80-year-old Grams who was hospitalized. The care given to the grandmother by the author and the memories it invokes; Description of Gram's condition and the pain; The author's reflection on dying well; The appreciation for lecture material on end-of-life issues; View of the author that the medical profession fails to meet the needs of dying patients, in terms of pain management and right to die.
- Published
- 2003
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