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Conversations in Palliative Care, 2nd ed. This text, presented in a question and answer format, is a comprehensive resource built upon a foundation of the basics of...

Conversations on Dying: A Palliative Care Pioneer Faces His Own Death Dr. Larry Librach was a well known leader in the field of Palliative Care, including being the Director of the Tammy Latner...

Counselling with Caregivers: A Guide for Professionals This book sensitizes healthcare practitioners to the challenges faced by caregivers, and provides practical advice reassessing...

Cultural Spotlight: Muslim Funeral Traditions This article highlights Muslim funeral traditions. It provides a brief overview about preparing for death, preparation of...

Death and Dying: Life and Living, 6th ed. This book helps you learn to cope with encounters with death, dying, and bereavement. The authors integrate classical and...

Death By Design (podcast) We must become the designer of our own destination. We must learn how to build the pathways to our last chapter by creating...

Decision-making for the End of Life The purpose of this policy is to assist physicians in providing medically and ethically appropriate care to patients at the...

Difficult Conversations in Medicine In all branches of medicine, effective communication between health care professionals and patients, families and carers...

Difficult Conversations: Making it easier to talk about end-of-life issues with young adults with life-limiting conditions This guide was developed in response to a gap in health professional's skills in having difficult conversations with the...

Dignity and the essence of medicine: the A, B, C, and D of dignity conserving care Kindness, humanity, and respect - the core values of medical professionalism - are too often being overlooked in the time...