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Palliative care through the lens of a medical student

Dominique S Schell
Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): . || doi: 10.5694/mja2.51805
Published online: 20 February 2023

From fearing death as a paediatric patient to confronting it as a training doctor

Life is continual creation, ie, the formation of new, higher forms … When existing forms are destroyed, this only means a new form is taking shape, invisible to us. We see what is outside us, but we don't see what is within us … A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn't see the butterfly which flies out of it.1

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