Integrative palliative care provides new approach to end-of-life process

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The focus of medicine in the United States has often been to keep terminally ill patients alive for as long as possible through aggressive interventions, sometimes forgoing comfort in the process. The emerging field of integrative palliative care aims to instead provide patients with as much relief and symptom management as possible through conventional treatments paired with complementary modalities. “It’s an evolution of society to realize we can’t always stop death even with the most…