hospice doctor
Terminal care provider
A hospice doctor specializes in caring for patients with terminal illnesses, focusing on comfort and quality of life rather than curative treatment.
Hospice doctors manage pain, coordinate end-of-life care, and support both patients and families through the dying process: The hospice doctor adjusted her medication to ease the pain.
Also called a palliative care physician, though palliative care can begin earlier in an illness.
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
- comfort careSymptom relief, not cure
- terminalAt the endpoint
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- morphineOpioid analgesic medication
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