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be seen by the cardiologist, the question might be "is that for the heart?" The number of questions that come up before accepting *Palliative* or *Supportive Care* are many more and are related to many different facets and it takes time to address each one of them appropriately. It has been the linguistic, semantic and its meaning and their impact on the patient's outcome that has fascinated me after many years working in the field and observing the change in the often the angry, frightened and frustrate people I meet when responding to a colleague's call for help and the relaxed, understanding, grateful and collaborative demeanor in the, by then patient under our care, we leave behind. Often part of our goodbye includes the question "will we see you again?" We have managed to establish a connection with the patient by spending time with them and their family and by talking to them about

*Suggestions for Addressing Clinical and Non-Clinical Issues in Palliative Care*

At a time when reassurance, otherness and presence can communicate so much, the power of language is immense in relationships that are short at the same time as

An exciting topic to research, *Palliative Care Linguistics* will need further work in the future because, just as Cicely Saunders said about *pain* "There is so much to

This chapter invites the reader to recognize the relationship between the expan-

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sion of PC and the appropriate conceptualization of the ideas, terminology and words used by those working in what constitutes its "deepest core", where its true

learn about explaining palliative concepts and the models of care!"

Our work confirms the power of words and the importance of exerting the *Active Listening* key in the holistic care promoted by Cicely Sanders to alleviate Total Pain [7]. It pioneers in the recognition of scientific linguistics as fundamental to improve delivery of Palliative Care improving quality of translation to new languages. This will need promoting due care is taken by working towards methodologically scientific ways of conceptualization in language production with languagespecific perspectives and event construal for different cultures who communicate in

our role in their situation.

they are intense.

different languages.

significance is.

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Maria Teresa Garcia-Baquero Merino1,2\*†, María Victoria Roqué Sánchez1 , Katherine Pettus3,4,5 and Micaela Menarguez Carreño<sup>1</sup>


† Madrid first Regional Palliative Care Coordinator 2008–2016.

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