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[Palliative care in China: a way out of the dilemma]
1School of Medical Humanities, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Abstract:
It is still common for terminally ill patients to suffer from pain, and the development of palliative care faces many obstacles. The value of death to human society is ignored, and the intrinsic relationship between the meaning of life and the value of death has not been fully explored. This article discusses the current status of palliative care in China, how clinicians reflect and respond, the change of the whole society's concept of palliative care, and suggestions for action, and tries to provide a medical humanistic perspective for walking out of the dilemma of palliative care.
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