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The Right to Comfort: What We Get Wrong About Access to End-of-Life Medicines

The Right to Comfort: What We Get Wrong About Access to End-of-Life Medicines

India talks about healthcare access as the fight to keep people alive, but forgets what happens when that fight ends. For patients at the end of life, even basic pain relief can become a journey through pharmacies, hospitals and paperwork. Dignity in dying should be part of what healthcare access means.