Can We Overcome the Effect of Conflicts in Rendering Palliative Care? An Introduction to the Middle Eastern Cancer Consortium (MECC)
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Michael Silbermann & Amal Khleif & Murat Tuncer & Barbara Pitsillides & Aziza Shad & Amitai Oberman & Mohammad ElShami & Murat Gultekin & Michel Daher
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
The Middle East has been experiencing an ongoing political conflict for the past several decades. This situation has been characterized by hostility often leading to violence of all sources. At times, such a conflict led to the outbreak of a military war, which was followed by an enmity between religious, ethnic, cultural, and national populations. In such environmental situations, palliative care professionals often confront major challenges including bias, mistrust, and mutual suspicion between patients and their treating clinicians. In order to overcome such obstacles, while rendering palliative care services, all professionals involved need careful planning and execution of their treatment plans. The latter is however possible, and sometimes successful even across lines of conflict, thereby promoting understanding, mutual respect, and tolerance between the involved communities and individuals.
Curr Oncol Rep (2011) 13:302–307 DOI 10.1007/s11912-011-0174-z Published online: 3 May 2011
