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That's "medications and treatments to control pain and other symptoms". It doesn't cover dealing with the philosophical issues.


Read the rest of it.

"Either way, services are available to help patients and their families with the medical, psychological, and spiritual issues surrounding dying."

All that aside, the focus is on making the end of life comfortable, which would naturally involve that sort of thing. Modern medicine takes what works from traditional and otherwise, and counseling is part of it.

There's a good saying: traditional medicine that works becomes modern medicine.


> traditional medicine that works becomes modern medicine.

This excludes the "help with spiritual issues" from being included within modern medicine, simply because there is no way to tell whether it works. The way the "help" probably works is that the hospital sets you in contact with a third party, since AFAIK medical school doesn't teach spiritual advice.


Referrals are part of modern medicine.




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