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Mary Baines
(1934 - )
British physician who was a palliative care physician in London, England. She was one of the founders of hospice care and devoted much of her working life to seriously ill and dying people.
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Science Quotes by Mary Baines (1)
One cannot help a man to come to accept his impending death if he remains in severe pain, one cannot give spiritual counsel to a woman who is vomiting, or help a wife and children say their goodbyes to a father who is so drugged that he cannot respond.
— Mary Baines
'The Principles of Symptom Control', in Ina Ajemian, Balfour M. Mount. (eds.) The R.V.H. Manual on Palliative/Hospice Care (1980), 176.
