CNN 2010-04-28

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By Melinda Smith Wahington, DC 24 May 2006 watch Palliative Care report Medicine has been called the healing art. But what happens when medicine can no longer heal? Who cares for the patient when there is no cure? VOA's Melinda Smith reports on an a

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