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A panacea of general practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2007

ADRIAN DABSCHECK
ADRIAN DABSCHECK
Affiliation:
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Department of Surgery, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia
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As a general practitioner with an interest in palliative medicine, occasionally patients with end-stage malignancies are referred to me. For these people the search for a panacea is well and truly over. Rather than searching for a cure for cancer they are now mostly searching for control of their “pain,” with all that that implies. One of my roles is to protect my patients from those peddling a panacea who in the process may impose burdensome costs, be they physical, psychological, or financial. The motives of those selling a “cure” may be altruism or greed, or indeed both.

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ESSAYS/PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 177 - 178
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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