Hospice: Supporting veterans in their final battle
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Hospice is an organized health service and a model of compassionate, supportive care designed to help patients cope with advanced incurable illnesses such as cancer and also addresses emotional and spiritual issues and supports family caregivers and provides medical equipment and medications to manage the illness. Thus hospice is a needed and helpful at a very trying time in life and seriously ill patients can take advantage of it as it is a struggle to resolve longburied battlefield traumas.
Publication Name: VFW Magazine
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0161-8598
Year: 2006
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Donate an organ, save a life
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Organ donation is a vital ingredient in America's health care system for it is the best of all to help somebody and as there is shortage of donated organs that results making thousands of people die waiting for an organ transplant. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) member who is a potential organ donor, shares his experience and presently he took up the task of enlightening the VFW members and their families with the importance of organ donation.
Publication Name: VFW Magazine
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0161-8598
Year: 2004
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Donate an organ, save a life
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Organ donation is a vital ingredient in America's health care system for it is the best of all to help somebody and as there is shortage of donated organs that results making thousands of people die waiting for an organ transplant. Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) member who is a potential organ donor, shares his experience and presently he took up the task of enlightening the VFW members and their families with the importance of organ donation.
Publication Name: VFW Magazine
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0161-8598
Year: 2004
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