Terminally ill - meaning without chances for cure, suffering both physically and mentally.
Palliative care is dedicated towards providing the best possible quality of life to dying people as well as supporting their close ones. It needs to address not only physical symptoms and sings especially pain but also emotional, social and spiritual disturbances.
These patients certainly require a professional management with access to modern medical knowledge and equipment but also need empathy, kindness and understanding. Proper functioning of stationary hospices and home palliative care systems consumes huge amounts of money which are not fully recompensed by Polish Healthcare System. This urges us to continuous quest to support our patients, especially that most of them would be gone not within years or months but weeks or even days ...
