L'enseignement de la clinique palliative : condition nécessaire à l'obstination raisonnable

Clinical and paraclinical signs of palliative medicine do not receive adequate study and therefore are unknown to the doctors. However, that signs determine the awareness of “the patient death as a possible”. They are the necessary first step in the direction of reasonably obstinacy even if others psychosocial factors take place in the final therapeutic choice.