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The home for VPR's coverage of health and health industry issues affecting the state of Vermont.

Focusing In On Palliative Care

For four years, terminally ill patients in Vermont have been able to seek a doctor's help in hastening their death. In that time, 29 Vermonters have taken the patient choice prescription.
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Palliative care is not new as a medical practice, but as a recognized medical specialty, it's still being defined. We're talking about it with the new chair in palliative medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Palliative care is specialized medical care that treats pain and other symptoms of patients with serious illness. It's a branch of medicine that can have a major impact - not only on patients, but on their families as well. 

As medical practice, it's as old as medicine itself. As a recognized medical specialty, it's almost brand new, and still in some ways being introduced to patients and the public.

Today, we're talking to the new Holly and Bob Miller Chair in Palliative Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Also on the program: of the Vermont Press Bureau gives us an update on the trial of Senator Norm McAllister.

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This program is broadcast live on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Jane Lindholm is the host, executive producer and creator of But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids. In addition to her work on our international kids show, she produces special projects for ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý. Until March 2021, she was host and editor of the award-winning ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý program Vermont Edition.

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