Article: Sometimes Treating Pain Is As Important As Treating Disease
HuffPost has published an article about palliative care, "Sometimes Treating Pain Is As Important As Treating Disease."
Palliative care's history is traced from 1974 to the World Health Organization's recognition of it as a separate medical specialty in 1990, to the present day when roughly 75% of hospitals have a palliative care program. The article talks about palliative care's tangible, quantifiable savings for whoever is paying medical bills.
Diane Meier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, and Amy Berman, RN, LHD, FAAN, Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, discuss what palliative care is, why it can make such a difference, and what barriers exist that prevent people from getting palliative care. "Meier, Berman and several colleagues in 2017 called for a 'National Strategy on Palliative Care.'”
Amy Berman's personal experience living with serious illness is called a "case study in the ability of palliative care to transform the lives of people with serious, life-threatening conditions." As she notes, "Palliative care is the best friend of the seriously ill."
Photo: Courtesy of Amy Berman via HuffPost
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