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Pioneering Palliative Care physicians Balfour Mount and Michael Kearney noticed an interesting phenomenon in their practice. The improvement they often saw in dying patients’ quality of life did not appear to depend on control of disease, improvement in function, or even control of symptoms [1]. Here is how Balfour Mount describes the paradigmatic case [2] “CD was 30-years-old when he presented with a widely disseminated germinal testicular cancer. Radical surgery and chemotherapy initially resulted in his tumor markers reverting to negative and the hope of cure, but within months his disease progressed with ensuing extreme cachexia. He died slowly over a 12-month period. CD had always stood out from his peers. He had always been a winner. Strong. Outgoing.

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Hutchinson, T.A. (2011). Whole Person Care. In: Hutchinson, T. (eds) Whole Person Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9440-0_1

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