As a palliative care doctor I've had doors slammed in my face

'Palliative care doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Neither do the words death and dying.' Read these important words from a palliative care doctor 👇

‘I don’t want to see the palliative care team. They’re all about dying, aren’t they?’When people are referred to me, afull of grim foreboding, and implies that death is just a few days, maybe even hours, away.

Yet the stigma around the term is so great, that for decades I’ve heard the debate on whether we should get rid of it all together, replace it with something softer, like ‘symptomatic care’, ‘alleviative care’, or even ‘holistic care team’?When I first came to the United Kingdom from Germany in the 90s, I had to ask someone whatA Scot, ever the pragmatist, explained to me that for some the words ‘she died’ are too stark, and were gradually being replaced by softer terms like pass on, pass over...

One of my patients a few years ago turned around and said, ‘I always thought that there was only one way you could get discharged from a palliative clinic’, all the while pointing up to the sky. Then he waved, turned away and shut the door. As far as I know he is still alive and may be reading this.

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