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1Pain and Palliative Care Service, MSPCA-Angell Animal Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Bioethics, New Haven, CT, USA.
Abstract:
In the past 40 years, the field of palliative care for people faced many of the same obstacles in development and expansion that veterinary palliative care now confronts. A series of interviews with pioneers in human palliative care revealed what those early obstacles were professionally, personally, and institutionally. Many of the hurdles are strikingly similar to what veterinary professionals are currently facing in their attempts to grow palliative care as both an independent subspecialty and an integrated part of general practice. We can translate their experiences and successes to help veterinary palliative care flourish.
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