End of Life Care

Adopt Substitute Resolution

RESOLVED, that the WAFP remains committed to professional standards and medical interventions that will allow our patients to have safe, high-quality end-of-life care, and be it further

RESOLVED, that the WAFP supports, in a multidisciplinary context, increased access to and funding of hospice and palliative care services for our patients that concur with the physician’s role as healer, and the extension of hospice care, palliative care, pain management, and other medical interventions that further optimize end of life care for those with advanced disease processes, and other vulnerable populations, such as the terminally ill, elderly, and disabled, and be it further

RESOLVED, that the WAFP encourages the expansion of medical student and resident training in communication, counseling, management and treatment of patients facing end of life needs, including training in pain control and the use of hospice and palliative care.

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