palliation

It also highlights an "inappropriate" decision to offer a patient an "unnecessary and futile" amputation when "palliation and conservative therapy should have been considered instead".

Marcus’s father was offered hospice care, a form of palliation that is generally reserved for people with a life expectancy of six months or less, who are no longer pursuing “curative” treatments.

Bunting himself looked down on annotations: “Notes are a confession of failure, not a palliation of it,” he wrote, introducing the few notes to his 1968 “Collected Poems.”

For them, a shift in that goal, toward palliation, occurs only when the leukemia has proven to be dogged in its resistance to our assaults.

This recognition allows patients to halt toxic treatment, opt for effective palliation and articulate their goals for the end of life.