The Center also provides consultations in palliative medicine for the whole Pomeranian region.

Just how palliative medicine will be incorporated into American health care, however, remains a huge question.

With roots in the hospice movement, palliative medicine has long been ignored by most American doctors.

Suddenly, however, palliative medicine is in vogue.

That is a central tenet of palliative medicine.

This is where palliative medicine comes in.

In simplest terms, palliative medicine is the care a patient gets at first diagnosis of a terminal illness; it's a kind of pre-hospice care.

Will palliative medicine put physicians back in charge of dying, remedicalizing the experience all over again?

In addition, fellowships are offered in internal medicine and palliative medicine.

Doctors are beginning to receive more training in palliative medicine and in how to communicate more effectively with terminally ill patients.