Why Palliative Care?

摘要

‘It's a fascinating line of work — in a truly humanistic way, you really feel you do achieve something. And every person with a life-threatening illness presents a new challenge. I end up by seeing the more difficult ones, the ones with complex pain. Lots of psychological angst that manifests itself in physical symptoms. I see people who are getting buckets of drugs and nothing works — and you know and they know the drugs are not the issue. There's nothing more satisfying than working someone around, whose pain ends up being well controlled on a minimal amount of drugs, because you've dealt with the underlying psychological and existential issues. In fact, it's addictive doing this work.