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What do our patients want and need? A palliative care clinician's view from the trenches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2004

THOMAS B. STROUSE
THOMAS B. STROUSE
Affiliation:
Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Los Angeles, California
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Extract

This manuscript was written for and delivered as the keynote address at the Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative's 2002 Annual Awards Dinner. The author thought the journal's readership might experience the content as more immediate if it remained in its original narrative form.

Type
Research Article
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 285 - 289
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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