Estimate of Current Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Workforce Shortage

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Pain & Symptom Management, December 2010

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Palliative care services remains scattershot in U.S. healthcare, but access is gradually improving.

Many older patients have problems that an emergency room is ill-equipped to handle, but often there is nowhere else to go. So…

Many older patients have problems that an emergency room is ill-equipped to handle, but often there is nowhere else to go. So…

We’re in trouble. There just aren’t enough specialists in palliative care to palliate all the suffering out there. One…

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