title: Caring for the dying patient.
abstract: Patients die but their journey towards death is often camouflaged within a complex model of care that focuses on what is happening to them rather than what is happening with them.
authors.affiliation: Palliative Care Services, Port Kembla Hospital, Warrawong, New South Wales, Australia. barbato@iimetro.com.au
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Barbato
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*