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Living in fear, dying in despair – how can we help? (Is Palliative Care** an answer to a request for physician assisted suicide?)
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Knysna Sedgefield Hospice is privileged to offer a public lecture by Dr Liz Gwyther who is the CEO of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA), chair of the World wide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) and a director of the African Palliative Care Association, ehospice and Pain Society of South Africa
TOPIC: Living in fear, dying in despair – how can we help? (Is Palliative Care** an answer to a request for physician assisted suicide?)
DATE: 12 July 2018
TIME: 10am
PLACE: Knysna Yacht Club
ALL WELCOME
No entry fee, coffee and tea on sale
RSVP by 10 July 2018 to Connie on (044) 384 0593
** Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
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Compassion is at the very centre of the Hospice movement. - Dr. Liz Gwyther
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