They should receive the best care possible, including palliative treatment, a dimension of terminal care that is often scandalously neglected: and this in turn will require, in America, a proper effort to extend health coverage to the uninsured.

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Their letter says the new treatment pattern of palliative care, based on experience at a Liverpool hospice is being rolled out into hospitals and nursing homes.

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