PSYCH 150: The Terminally Ill Patient
Medlock Holmes enters The Last Ward, a quiet wing of the hospital where medicine appears to be running out of doors.
Behind the patients lie operating theatres, chemotherapy suites, dialysis machines and intensive-care units. Ahead lies a doorway that medicine cannot ultimately prevent anyone from reaching.
But Holmes immediately notices something important.
The doctors have not disappeared.
Neither has psychiatry.
Because when cure becomes impossible, there remains an enormous amount to treat.
PAIN • FATIGUE • ANXIETY • DEPRESSION • DELIRIUM • FEAR • CONFLICT • LONELINESS • LOSS • MEANING…
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