Clinical Training Course: FAMILY PRACTICE: The Dying Patient

Drs Mary Elizabeth Roth and John W. Finn

Attend to the most important needs of dying patients and their families, including cultural issues; Understand the greatest fears of terminally ill patients; Refer patients for palliative care or hospice; Care for patients with class IV hear failure and various stages and forms of cancers; and Recognize factors that influence the prognosis or critically ill patients.