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Rural Healthcare: Palliative care

Palliative care involves patients, their families and their healthcare providers, particularly GPs. Its primary aim is to respect the wishes of the patient’s attitude towards treatment, as well as ensure their comfort.

‘One of the privileges of being a GP is that you get to share a journey with your patients. Sometimes that journey starts from birth and continues through all stages of their life,’ Dr Ayman Shenouda, a NSW GP and Chair of the RACGP’s National Rural Faculty (NRF), told Good Practice.

‘Palliative care patients tend to prefer that their GP care for them. GPs are aware of the patient’s history, as well as their psychological and physical capacity to deal with their illness.’

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