Palliative care advocating for patients: Barriers to symptom management via telephonic prescribing restrictions

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People with serious illness have significant health challenges. Palliative care thus becomes important to help the patients live through the challenge with limited suffering. From the time that a person is diagnosed with a serious illness, patient advocates become an important part of their lives. Besides helping the patients, the patient advocate is responsible for making the patient’s family live a high-quality life (Barner & Hromadik, 2020). The stress and symptoms are relieved from the patient during the palliative care through the help of the patient advocate. Through palliative care, a patient can match their options of treatment to their goals. This helps the physicians understand what the patient wants. Any person that faces a serious illness can benefit from palliative care.