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Multi-culturalism and Medicine Joint Study day Basildon and Romford GP VTS 4 th March 2009

Multi-culturalism and Medicine Joint Study day Basildon and Romford GP VTS 4 th March 2009 . Gilly Burn Lead International Palliative Care Education Triage Clinical nurse Specialist Saint francis Hospice .

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Multi-culturalism and Medicine Joint Study day Basildon and Romford GP VTS 4 th March 2009

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  1. Multi-culturalism and Medicine Joint Study day Basildon and Romford GP VTS 4th March 2009 Gilly Burn Lead International Palliative Care Education Triage Clinical nurse Specialist Saint francis Hospice

  2. “A clear measure of the quality of a society, is the way it treats people approaching the end of their life” Gandhi

  3. Holistic Care Physical Psychological Social Spiritual

  4. PALLIATIVE CARE: World Health Organization Definition Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

  5. Should it only be in the realm of palliative care that we address spiritual /faith issues?

  6. Total Pain

  7. PALLIUM-a Cloak “May you be wrapped in tenderness, you my brother, as if in a cloak.” The Holy Q’ran

  8. Total Pain Social Physical Emotional Spiritual

  9. “You are important because you are you. We will do everything possible, not only to help you to die peacefully, but to live until the last moment of your life. Dame Cicely Saunders

  10. A Assessment Appropriate Treatment

  11. 2nd February 2009, Daily Mail Persecuted for praying: offering to pray for a sick patient Disciplined under the equal opportunities and “diversity” policies. Reader response: “My aunty is in palutive (sic) care in hospital. Her children are agnostics, and yet they were overjoyed when told that a Christian in the family was praying for their mother. It’s amazing to see how hope and comfort was brought to them in their time of need. It’s amazing how many cease to be atheists on the death beds”. KB, Worcs

  12. “Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help, and indomitable energy.” Swami Vivekananda

  13. Debate: Should we be bringing faith into medicine?

  14. Truth

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