What is palliative care?
Palliative care is comfort care. It is not intended to cure, and patients at the end of life have only comfort care to relieve them.
What is comfort care? It varies in nature. It can be treatment, pain management and management of other physical symptoms, such as nausea, balance problems, and so on. Beyond that, there is the whole category of what is called psychological suffering, including existential suffering at the end of life. There is no pharmaceutical treatment or any other treatment sufficient to meet the needs of these patients. I don't think there ever will be.
I was a doctor in an excellent hospice for 25 years, before I devoted myself exclusively to medical assistance in dying. I had to because in that hospice, when the law was passed...