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Ways the job branches

• Pediatric palliative care

  Children with life-limiting conditions and their families. Small, specialized and emotionally the hardest version of the work.

• Hospice medical director

  Clinical leadership of an agency, including eligibility decisions and staff supervision.

• Academic and research work

  Teaching communication skills, running trials on symptom control, building a hospital program.

• Ethics consultation

  Many palliative doctors end up on hospital ethics committees, because they already do this reasoning daily.