Chinmayi

Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an emotionally draining experience. I saw and met patients who were abandoned by their families, and there is complete sense of hopelessness. Ever since, I have been a supporter for the need for funding and awareness of palliative care.

Indian Musician

Laura Wade

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

British Playwright

Kate Middleton

I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

English Royalty

Joseph Stiglitz

Trump has been criticized by mainstream Republicans for not really being one of them. But he is definitely one of them when it comes to the central palliative for any ill befalling the country: a tax cut for the rich.

American Economist

Jess Phillips

I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.

British Politician

Owen Jones

Britain's end-of-life and palliative care services are a national travesty. That a public debate on this crisis is so sorely lacking has much to do with our fear of confronting dying and death.

British Journalist

Steven Weber

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

American Actor

Peter De Vries

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

American Novelist

Nicola Sturgeon

I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.

Scottish Politician

Judy Gold

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

American Comedian

Used when a solution eases a problem but won't fix it permanently.

Temporary Fix

Stresses that it doesn't completely remedy the underlying issue.

Not a Cure

Highlights temporary relief of tension or conflict.

Soothing Effect

Focuses on reducing unpleasant symptoms, not curing the cause.

Eases Symptoms

Refers to a broader approach that supports a patient's quality of life.

Supportive Care

Can be part of treatment for chronic illnesses, not only terminal cases.

Not Just End-of-Life

 and you actually never get the infection, which is very different from, say, our treatments. Right? In that case, you get the infection, you're exposed to the bacteria, you're sick, and then you take, say, an antibiotic which cures it, and those drugs are actually working to kill the bacteria. Or similar to as I said before, with this palliative,

Could a drug prevent...

 True to the tenets of palliative care, I function as something of a reflective advocate, as much as prescribing physician. Quick palliative care -- a very important field but poorly understood -- while it includes, it is not limited to end of life care. It is not limited to hospice.

What really matters at...

 effortlessly this is our body wisdom is not something that is mediated by a language our body just knows that and we've known that for a long time and this is not something that happens to humans only it happens to some of our palliative cousins because if you're a

A new way to diagnose...

 what they need, is why, as healthcare providers, we're here. Asking patients about their hopes, their fears, their goals and preferences. As a palliative care provider, I ask all my patients what they're hoping for and what they're afraid of. But here's the thing.

A doctor's case for...

 Paul's oncologist tailored his chemo so he could continue working as a neurosurgeon, which initially we thought was totally impossible. When the cancer advanced and Paul shifted from surgery to writing, his palliative care doctor prescribed a stimulant medication

What makes life worth...

 amber yeah amber was our leader on this trip this was her sort of brainchild but I think amber cray-1 the best expedition leaders that of being with some of these amazing palliative skills you know everything from a remote medicine to

National Geographic...

 How could this be? Here's a Could it be that those ties to ancestral soil, the soft variables reflected in their aphorisms, actually affect longevity? The power of motherland so fundamental to that part of the world seems palliative.

Holly Morris: Why stay...

 who had fought so bravely, was done fighting and could rest now, forever. Fortunately, I never did have to finish that bedtime story. My children outgrew it. Joel responded better than anyone expected to palliative treatment,

A video game to cope...

 She was fighting for her life to end, for her right to die. In hospice and palliative care, there are three main focus areas for support.

My mother's final wish...

 While Harold's time was limited, palliative care's is not. Palliative care is a paradigm from diagnosis through the end of life.