As a Palliative care nurse, this is a very true presentation of a day in my life. But we experience so many families who have such realistic expectations of what medicine or god can do.
Thanks for your comment. I was also a Palliative Care Nurse - my dialogues come from my past experience and conversations I’ve had with patients and their relatives. I made sure that there was a unit on Palliative Care in the ‘Cambridge English for Nursing’ books, because I felt it was often a neglected area in English for Medicine.
Hmmm. If someone is dying a good doctor wouldn’t say ‘it’s impossible to say’ - they would have an idea and give a range. Days to very short weeks or it’s very hard to say but I think it would be ....
As a Palliative care nurse, this is a very true presentation of a day in my life. But we experience so many families who have such realistic expectations of what medicine or god can do.
Thanks for your comment. I was also a Palliative Care Nurse - my dialogues come from my past experience and conversations I’ve had with patients and their relatives. I made sure that there was a unit on Palliative Care in the ‘Cambridge English for Nursing’ books, because I felt it was often a neglected area in English for Medicine.
Hmmm. If someone is dying a good doctor wouldn’t say ‘it’s impossible to say’ - they would have an idea and give a range. Days to very short weeks or it’s very hard to say but I think it would be ....
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Then my wife was in pain all the time. Because she never stopped moaning and her facial expressions were horrendous.