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[When does palliative care begin and who decides?].

¹Département douleurs, soins palliatifs, hôpital Jean-Minjoz, CHU Besançon, 25030 Besançon Cedex. raubry@chu-besancon.fr

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Palliative care is an ongoing process, not a late-stage intervention. Recognizing the palliative phase early is crucial for patients and doctors to acknowledge illness uncertainty and mortality.

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Medical Humanities
Palliative Care Medicine
Patient-Centered Care

Context:

Current medical practice often separates curative and palliative care.
This separation overlooks the continuous nature of patient care throughout illness progression.
Patients and clinicians may resist acknowledging the palliative phase due to denial of uncertainty and finiteness.

Purpose:

To challenge the conventional view of palliative care as a terminal-stage intervention.
To emphasize palliative care as an integral and continuous component of overall patient care.
To explore the psychological barriers faced by patients and physicians in accepting the palliative phase.

Summary:

Palliative care should not be viewed as commencing only after curative treatments cease.
Care is a unified, evolving process that may lead to illness progression and death, not always recovery.
The balance between curative and palliative treatment shifts dynamically with disease trajectory.

Impact:

Promotes a holistic understanding of patient care, integrating palliative principles from diagnosis onwards.
Encourages earlier recognition and acceptance of the palliative phase by patients and healthcare providers.
Aims to improve patient well-being by addressing uncertainty and finiteness more openly.