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When siblings disagree about pain management in home hospice care

My sister and I are caring for our father through his terminal illness at home, and she believes in aggressive pain management while I worry we're over-medicating him, and we're starting to resent each other's approaches instead of working together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people who love the same dying person are becoming adversaries because their different relationships to suffering are creating different definitions of compassionate care.

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“Where Are You with Palliative care and comfort medicine?”

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