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Several decades ago when I was still at medical school, the standard teaching on palliative care was delivered by a formidable anaesthetist who focused on the five stages of grief in the dying process as propounded by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance [1].
Abstract
The December issue of Breathe focuses on palliative care in respiratory disease http://ow.ly/LN5130fTQus
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