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Palliative care is a team approach aiming at best possible symptom control during end-of-life treatment. In the rural setting, not all key-contributors to palliative care may be available, this makes the role of the team leader (surgeon) very important. Palliative surgery is a very challenging and interesting field of patient-centred surgical decision-making.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Mount Gambier General Hospital and Flinders University Rural Medical School, 276-300 Wehl Street North, Mount Gambier, SA, 5290, Australia

    Matthias W. Wichmann

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  1. Mount Gambier General Hospital, Associate Professor, Wehl Street North 276-300, Mount Gambier, SA 5290, South Australia, Australia

    Matthias Wichmann

  2. Bassett Medical Center, Mithoefer Center for Rural Surgery, Cooperstown, 13326, New York, USA

    David C. Borgstrom

  3. c/o University of Northern British Colum, University Way 3333, Prince George, V2N 4Z9, British Columbia, Canada

    Nadine R. Caron

  4. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, SA 5011, South Australia, Australia

    Guy Maddern

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Wichmann, M.W. (2011). Palliative Surgery. In: Wichmann, M., Borgstrom, D., Caron, N., Maddern, G. (eds) Rural Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78680-1_5

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