(Source: The University of Queensland) 5 November 2014 By Nikola Stepanov, Lecturer in medical ethics and law at UQ Read the original article on The Conversation The diagnosis of a palliative illness in a child or adolescent is devastating for all involved: parents, family members and the children themselves, as they grieve for life they had planned and believed they would have. The child, their parents (and sometimes siblings) and clinicians will soon begin the difficult process of talking about death and the options for the child's end-of-life care. Advance care planning and advance health directives are useful...
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