Publication
Nurturing hope: pioneering paediatric palliative care in Pakistan
Resham S, Qamar J, Altaf S · The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2024
My colleagues often say that seeing me (Resham) standing beside a patient's bed or lingering outside a child's room feels like a sign that the malik-ul-maut, or the angel of death, is near. For a long time, most health-care professionals perceived my role in the hospital as that of the doctor responsible for withdrawing life support, the tubes and ventilators keeping a patient with terminal illness alive. It saddens me that they still perceive my role as such, but I persevere, not missing an opportunity to educate them that my role as a palliative care physician is so much more than that.
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