Lessons on caring for those with life-limiting illnesses
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Lessons on caring for those with life-limiting illnesses | Dear friend, Everyone dies. This is an inescapable fact. Yet there is no one set of rules for end-of-life care. Palliative care is left to individual health-care providers and varies drastically depending on resources, accessibility, and accepted norms. Rwandan physician Dr. Christian Ntizimira is passionate about accompanying patients who are dying and offers hopeful lessons on the importance of Ubuntu philosophy in caring for those with life-limiting illnesses.
Ubuntu emphasizes the connectedness of the individual with the community: “People are people through other people,” or, “I am, because you are.” Ntizimira stresses the crucial role of communication across diverse cultural and religious backgrounds when treating his patients. Core to this belief is offering dignity, compassion, harmony, and reconciliation.
Read this inspiring reflection by Dr. Christian Ntizimira in the August issue of Sojourners. Subscribe now for $10. |
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