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Care, compassion, empathy: Euthanasia: Controlling our own emotions in the face of patient need
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Care, compassion, empathy: Euthanasia: Controlling our own emotions in the face of patient need
Wednesday 19 July 2023, 12:00 AM

Doctors are to take care the patient dies with dignity, in comfort and with as little suffering as possible, says the Medical Council [Image: Alexander Grey on Unsplash]
Jim Vause, who gets upset thinking about assisting a patient to die, decides the best approach is to consider the suffering patient’s emotions and not your own
What drives you as a clinician? Is it the emotional side of patient care or is it the logic, the higher-level stuff? When it comes to that vexed topic
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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