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- The kind and quality of modern health care depend on the relationships among the patient, the medical/nursing staff, and the institution.
- Individual and social choices about financing health care exert an influence on the options available for care of the seriously ill and dying.
- Hospice care for the dying results from concerns about care of the terminally ill as well as about costs of health care at the end-stage of life.
- Palliative care involves active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment.
- Hospice care is specialized palliative care of patients with terminal illness.
- Emergency personnel and other caregivers are exposed to stress related to the helping role.
- Being with someone who is dying involves a confrontation with one's own mortality.
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