Home: Palliation for Dying Undocumented Immigrants

  • Nuila R
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What Cifuentes wanted more than pain medicines or chemotherapy was to die at home. But he was an undocumented immigrant, and home was a ranchito in Guatemala. What should the U.S. health care system do for dying people who live in the country illegally?

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Nuila, R. (2012). Home: Palliation for Dying Undocumented Immigrants. New England Journal of Medicine, 366(22), 2047–2048. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1201768

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