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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

I have felt as I’ve come through this field over the last, I guess 2003 is when I realized I wanted to be a palliative care doctor. She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors. So, we wanted to have some activity spread around the country.