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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. But remember that here we were focused on needs.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

I have felt as I’ve come through this field over the last, I guess 2003 is when I realized I wanted to be a palliative care doctor. Sue 13:15 There was 12 beds, there was a head nurse for home care, There was only one head nurse doing that and a consult nurse that was seeing patients on other wards that were a likely admission choice.

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