Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life
The Interview
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Do You Encourage Patients to Take a Cancer Drug, More Chemotherapy?
Do you encourage people to take whatever medical options there are to prolong their lives? I mean just thinking of cancer care where there are experimental drugs offered, they can be very punishing to the body but they might extend your life by three weeks or three months or possibly a year. Is it automatic to you as a doctor that you would encourage the patient to go down that track? No and it never should be automatic for any doctor. Our job is to ensure to the best of our abilities that we inform a patient so we give them the information about all of the risks and benefits of a treatment.
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