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Palliative Medicine has become a familiar term in recent years and is becoming established as a key component in modern health care, and many institutions promote Palliative Care teams. Although this is a term relatively new to many practitioners, palliative care was coined several decades ago by Dr. Balfour Mount, a Canadian physician. After training in Dame Cicely Saunders' St. Christopher's Hospice in London, he was so impressed that he was inspired to bring this type of care to mainstream curative medicine. As a result, he founded the Royal Victoria Hospital Palliative Care Service in 1974 and is credited with establishing the first in-patient palliative care unit in North America. Having emerged from the nurse driven hospice movement, the care of the dying has evolved to a formal hospice benefit and development of a recognized subspecialty.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Angèle Ryan M.D. & Jack M. Berger M.S., M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, 06520, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

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    Alan David Kaye

  3. Keck School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medic, of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90035, California, USA

    Jack M. Berger

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Ryan, A., Berger, J.M. (2013). Introduction and Education. In: Vadivelu, N., Kaye, A., Berger, J. (eds) Essentials of Palliative Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5164-8_1

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