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Palliative Care: Care vs Cure

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Canadian Virtual Hospice has added a video to its resources. "Palliative Care: Care vs Cure" is an interview with Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at Mt. Sinai. A snippet: "...there have been published, over the past couple of years, and most especially this summer several studies now showing that patients who get palliative care at the same time as they get curative treatment or disease focused treatment, actually not only feel better, they and their families feel better … they also live significantly longer than people who only get the disease specific care, or the curative treatment." Click to go.

Canadian Virtual Hospice

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From the Virtual Hospice website: “The Canadian Virtual Hospice provides support and personalized information about palliative and end-of-life care to patients, family members, health care providers, researchers and educators… The Canadian Virtual Hospice went online in February 2004, with evidence-based information and an e-health pioneering feature called Ask a Professional. For the first time, Canadians had direct access to health specialists online. Since then, Canadians have found a safe place to sort through issues related to death and dying at the Virtual Hospice. The information and support they find here helps make sense in times of confusion, offers compassion in times of isolation, and reassurance in times of anxiety.”



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Canadian Virtual Hospice
Room PE469, One Morley Avenue
Winnipeg, MB   R3L 2P4
info@virtualhospice.ca
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