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Re: Pregnancy Care: An Apprenticeship for Palliative Care?

Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care
Kansas City, MO

Correspondence: csinclair{at}kchospice.org

To the Editor: Thank you for an insightful piece¹ on the beginning and end of life—one that helps draw comparisons between fields where few would find any similarities to exist. The table included at the end of the article could be applied across many fields and is one I will use in teaching often. One of the clearest similarities between pregnancy and care at the end of life is the unpredictable timing of the event. It can bring comfort to families to understand that things happen in their own time. I also compare how death is one of the many challenges we face in life, much like becoming a parent is an important challenge that changes who we are.

And to the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, thank you for making this important piece free to the public. I also signed up to receive your RSS feed online. What a great tool for accessing your journal!

The above letter was referred to the author of the article in question, who offers the following reply.

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1. Clark WD. Pregnancy care: an apprenticeship for palliative care? J Am Board Fam Med 2008;21:63–5.

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