The Little Handbook of Palliative Care

About the Book

The Little Handbook of Palliative Care The Little Handbook of Palliative Care is a bullet-point handbook written for medical students, doctors and nurses. The book explores multiple aspects of palliative care, from symptom control, psychosocial care, and spiritual care to self-care. It is aimed to provide a brief introduction of palliative care to students and a practical reference for professionals who are involved in the care of the dying. Love, mindfulness, happiness and kindness are highlighted in the book as core elements fundamental to the practice of medicine and palliative care.

About the Author

Dr Tan Seng Beng is an Associate Professor and Consultant in Palliative Medicine at University of Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a clinician, lecturer and researcher. His main area of interest in research is about suffering, causes of suffering, cessation of suffering and causes of cessation of suffering in palliative care. His passion is in applying mindfulness to palliate suffering, to live life deeply, to love wholeheartedly and to let go thoroughly.