Study finds spiritual care still rare at end of life

NEW YORK, Dec 27: Physicians and nurses at four Boston medical centers cited a lack of training to explain why they rarely provide spiritual care for terminally ill cancer patients – although most considered it an important part of treatment at the end of life. “I was quite surprised that it was really just lack of training that dominated the reasons why,” senior author Dr. Tracy Balboni, a radiation oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, told. (agencies)