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Hospice: How It Started and What It Has Become

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The Hospice Team
Who We Are and How We Care
Edited by Rabbi Dr. Chaim Joseph Wender, F.LBC, and Patricia Ellen Morrison, L.C.S.W.
Copyright © 2019 by Health Professions Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

This series of 21 essays from 9 disciplines of hospice care will give you an inside look into what hospice truly is and the many ways in which the hospice team cares for those who are approaching the end of life.

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