Palliative care for terminally ill patients is the best way of providing good medical treatment, according to Dr John Obeid. PHOTO: CNS / NANCY WIECHEC

17 Nov 2017

By Matthew Biddle

Palliative care for terminally ill patients is the best way of providing good medical treatment, according to Dr John Obeid. PHOTO: CNS / NANCY WIECHEC

Catholic chaplain Susan Mitchell sings hymns with cancer patient Celia Nissen at her home in Rockville, Md., Dec. 9. Nissen has been in hospice care since August 2008, far longer than any of Mitchell’s other patients. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) (Dec. 21, 2010) See CHAPLAINS-HOSPICE Dec. 21, 2010.