Palliative care is for when the illness cannot be cured, but you must still manage the pain and keep dignity, ji. It is needed long before the very end, I feel. For those who cannot speak, you watch the eyes, the tightness of the face... the body speaks. My own wife, her arthritis pain was silent for so long until I learned to see it in how she held her chai cup. Now, the hospital has a special pain clinic, and they taught me these signs – that is the real care.
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