Is Suffering the Enemy?

Hastings Center Report 32 (2):40-44 (2002)
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The relief of suffering is the great goal of medicine. That physicians give up on suffering when they can do nothing about the underlying condition is one of the contemporary criticisms of medicine. Yet even in irremediable suffering there is something noble, to which physicians should attend.

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Richard Gunderman
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