Food and fluids in dying patients: some thoughts after the death of a patient.

D Cameron

Abstract


Death is inevitable but modern medicine has the skill and the facilities to delay its arrival. A case is made out for a radical rethink of the approach to the use of fluids and food in the terminal dying patient in hospital.

(SA Fam Pract 2004;46(4): 06-07)

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SA Fam Pract | ISSN (Print): 2078-6190, ISSN (Web): 2078-6204

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