Daily Archives: December 1, 2020

2020-12-01: News Headlines

Sampath R. (2020-12-01). Always More to Be Done—The Presence of Comfort in Patient Care. jamanetwork.com In this narrative medicine essay a medical student recalls discovering the power of meaningful palliative care, contrasting patients' relief from suffering through caring and comfort with her father's awful experience of pain and neglect in his closing days.

news.un (2020-11-30). FROM THE FIELD: Trafficked teenager advocates for women's rights in Central America. news.un.org A 19-year-old woman from Nicaragua in Central America has been telling the United Nations how she was traded as "currency" in a card game, and then trafficked and abused.