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Health Awards Category 2 A Good Death

Deborah Masters and Matthew Carney ABC 4 Corners. On the fourth floor of a nondescript building and just a short walk from the centre of Sydney is Sacred Heart's Plliative Care Centre. Late last year Four Corners spent four months there recording the work of a small group of health care professionals who have made death their life's work. The people they treat have all been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Four patients allowed Four Corners to document the final months of their lives as they came to terms with death. Norma Andres, Jophn Peart, Daryl Calver and Sany Riches all believed palliative care profoundly improved wthe quality of their lives and their families. For most Australians, around 70% die in an acute hospital often in an intensive care bed. Palliative care doctors and nurses are warning our obsession with curing illness is leaving patients poorly cared for an unprepared for death. In many cases doctors can tell patiens roughly how long they have to live. In reality only a few take advantage of those warnings. Instead they prefer to believe that somehow modern medicine will save them. Many doctors are reluctant to acknowledge they don't have a cure or to tell a patient you are dying. As a result many patients are not accessing treatment which would alleviate their suffering and help families and themselves come to terms with the diagnosis, and the associated trauma. This documentary explores the journey to death and highlights the need for both patients and doctors to recognise care can be as vital as cure.