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    Many patients who check into hospices to die, don't

    it. 'The patient isn't in decline; their caregiving is in decline.' Given the focused attention of hospice doctors, nurses, social workers and spiritual counselors, the patients get their minimum meds adjusted and take them regularly. They get

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    Re: Many patients who check into hospices to die, don't

    I have always understood that, at times the symptoms are 'gotten under control', and that is why some come off of hospice.

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