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Volume 339:705-707 September 3, 1998 Number 10
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Treatment of Pain in Dying Patients

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To the Editor: Tucker (April 23 issue)1 discusses the treatment of pain in dying patients. This has been a concern to all physicians, and the use of large doses of pain medications, as needed, to control unremitting cancer-associated pain has ceased to be a subject of controversy for most of my colleagues. The concern now is how to determine what is enough without being too much. That does not seem to be the point of Tucker's letter.

Out of curiosity, I showed the letter to an acquaintance who is an attorney, who reacted the same way I did. It seems . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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