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mucifer

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5. As a pediatric hospice and palliative care nurse I'm hoping it might help

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 11:44 AM

Nov 2014

some of my patients be more comfortable. I do like that one of the diagnoses is "cachexia". This can apply to many diagnoses where the person cannot absorb nutrition properly. It occurs in cancer and AIDS. But, it also occurs in many other diseases. When the law is fully in effect, I can think of a few of my patients who might benefit from the new law. That is if their families approve.

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