Abstract：
:Increasingly in the U.S., health care clinicians fail to recognize and accept when curative goals are no longer realistic. At this point, futile efforts at cure can fuel false hopes in patients and their loved ones. The clinician's need to be "doing something" may result in treatment that violates the dignity and well-being of the patient and this can lead to the patient's ultimate hopelessness and despair. This article uses a personal narrative to explore the hopelessness of a patient diagnosed with nonresectable pancreatic cancer and the challenge it raised for the author, who was a friend and a nurse to the patient. Hope is described as a virtue that takes as its object "a future good, difficult but possible to obtain," and that sits squarely between false hopes and despair. Spiritual care that addresses three universal spiritual needs (meaning and purpose, love and relatedness, and forgiveness) is recommended as a valuable intervention to address hopelessness.
journal_name
J Pain Symptom Managejournal_title
Journal of pain and symptom managementauthors
Taylor Cdoi
10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.07.010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-10-01 00:00:00pages
626-30issue
4eissn
0885-3924issn
1873-6513pii
S0885-3924(12)00378-8journal_volume
44pub_type
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.02.022
更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.1016/s0885-3924(01)00340-2
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.04.010
更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0885-3924(95)00191-3
更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.12.324
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.11.002
更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0885-3924(98)00132-8
更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0885-3924(94)90174-0
更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,多中心研究,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.12.336
更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.02.010
更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.08.002
更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.03.037
更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.12.325
更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.02.043
更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 共识发展会议,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.04.004
更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.04.015
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.10.013
更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0885-3924(96)00011-5
更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.11.010
更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0885-3924(95)00137-9
更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.01.006
更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.01.010
更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2008.02.015
更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.07.008
更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of pain and symptom management
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi：10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.02.022
更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00
