The Importance of Holistic Care at the End of Life
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James Alexander Logan, a second-year medical student at the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, died in February 2001 after a painful illness. A Trust was set up in his name in 2003 to promote education in the recognition and treatment of cancer pain and it provided funds for an annual essay prize, open to those undergraduate medical students of Queen’s University, Belfast, who had completed their fourth year palliative care teaching. The first competition took place in 2010 and the winning entry appeared in the Ulster Medical Journal in 2011.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 86 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017