palliative

If there's no hope than palliative care is provided.

A "bland diet" was the prescribed palliative care for ulcers.

It was a good emergency revenue, but it is a palliative solution.

If the real source of illness is something that won't resolve on its own then focusing too much on the symptoms is at best a form of palliative care.

Even if you tell a patient that radiation is palliative and is not meant to cure a significant fraction of them will believe it is curative.

I don't just mean "use the palliative above": I mean any time a remote client can potentially download or overwrite the ACL then the design is probably broken.

My mother should not have agreed to this huge amount of palliative care that put her through hell, for longer than was necessary and forced her to cope with the horrible staff at our local palliative center.

It's hard to believe that it's not because of the millions of dollars in contributions given by companies whose food is making people sick or by the companies who provide drugs that provide said barely palliative care.

What that effectively means for someone with an aggressive/incurable disease is that instead of leaving your family bankrupted by heroic but statistically futile treatments you get high quality palliative care courtesy of the state.

" and the author's statement is "A year after my mother's uncomfortable decline, it's a question with which I'm still wrestling", but it's clear that the author supports people learning more about the options for palliative care over attempts at staying alive for as long as possible.

Results from the survey indicated that most patients believed that palliative RT could help them: 78 percent of patients believed that RT was very or somewhat likely to help them live longer, and 67 percent believed that RT was very or somewhat likely to help them with problems or symptoms resulting from their cancer.