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What Do Mediation and Palliative Care Have in Common?

July 9, 2015 By Sig Cohen Leave a Comment

What Do Mediation and Palliative Care Have in Common? by Sig CohenThe more I learn about palliative care, the more I’m persuaded it’s a lot like mediation.

  • Palliative care allows terminally ill patients to spend their last months (or less) without intensive and often intrusive medical interventions.
  • Mediation enables parties to settle their dispute without interminable and costly trials.

Neither the mediator nor the palliative care physician is a “fixer.”

  • Decision-making is left to the individual – be she a terminally or seriously ill patient (or family members) or parties to a case. A terminally ill patient who opts for palliative care implicitly agrees to take responsibility for how they wish to spend their remaining days.
  • When parties mediate, they become the decision-makers in the case and take some responsibility for moving toward resolution.

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