general practice trainees: | |
“I became aware of how important end of life care is for both, the patient as well as their relatives.” | |
“I want to improve the quality of end of life care.” | |
“I want to support patients to leave in dignity and without sorrows.” | |
“I want to identify and value the will and needs of my patients.” | |
“I consider the combination of a multimodal therapy within a multi-disciplinary team as best option” (for end of life care). | |
“I became aware of an increased need for physical contact in dying patients.” | |
“I do not want to judge relatives’ grief as being pathological too early” | |
“Alternative therapies in oral hygiene and aroma therapy are helpful.” | |
“I feel more self-confident.” | |
“Sometimes easy things such as oral hygiene make the slight difference” | |
“I became aware of end of life care to be a task in general practice.” | |
“I became interested in palliative medicine.” | |
“Now, I do have more understanding and can be more empathic towards patients and their relatives.” | |
“If they want, general practitioners can support patients in their wish to die at home” | |
“Palliative medicine is comprehensive.” | |
“Now I can imagine letting patients go (= let them die).” | |
“I became aware of a special patient-doctor relationship at the end of life.” | |
“I want to accept the patient’s will and autonomy in any situation, even if it is not reasonable from a medical point of view.” | |
“I want to analyse the problems of dying patients in detail and want to question decisions in therapy more often.” | |
“I obtained a better understanding of the various problems” | |
“I reflected thoroughly relative’s options (in end of life care). How would I like to die?” |