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Advance Directives: A Policy Required In The Asian Countries, Nasreen Panjwani
Advance Directives: A Policy Required In The Asian Countries, Nasreen Panjwani
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Advancements in health care have resulted in elaborate treatments all over the world and contributed to problems at times for the terminally ill who need palliative care. Futile treatments have demonstrated to defuse the symptoms of the disease without curing. In such scenarios physicians only prolong life of patients, keeping them away from dying peacefully and depriving them from quality of life. In this context, families exhaust their financial and material resources for the treatment of their loved ones without any substantial results. Health care systems are passionate about prolonging life and are ignoring the component of caring by disregarding …