title: [The care of the terminally ill patient].
abstract: Drs. Alejandro Goic (internist), Ramón Florenzano (psychiatrist), Bernardino Piñera (physician and Catholic Bishop), Sergio Valdés (internist) and Rodolfo Armas (internist) participated in a round table about the care of the terminally ill, during a Postgraduate Course organized by the Chilean Society of Gastroenterology. After a general introduction, participants discussed the psychological aspects of terminally ill patients, about the sense of death from a Christian anthropological perspective, the terminally ill in intensive care units and finally about the education of medical students in this frequently neglected aspect of medical practice.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goic
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Florenzano
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Piñera
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Valdés
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Armas
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D010819:Physician's Role; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: El cuidado del enfermo terminal.