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The programme looks at new attitudes which have evolved in the treatment of terminal cancers. These can be summarised as giving the patient quality of life during the last few weeks and to relieve ...pain using the stronger analgesic and narcotic drugs.
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Module code and title: T101, Living with technology: a foundation course
Item code: T101; 14; 1980
First transmission date: 17-08-1980
Published: 1980
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Duration: 00:24:00
Note: N.B. clock title: the hospital movement.
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Producer: David Jackson
Contributors: Pauline Holmes; John Naughton
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Attitudes; Dying; Hospice; Medical profession; Morphine; Quality of life; Sympton control; Terminal care
Footage description: John Naughton, in the studio, introduces the programme. Film shots of visitors talking to a patient in a terminal cancer ward. Shots of a doctor talking to a cancer patient. Pauline Holmes and Lynn MacKay, nurses at Royal Marsden Hospital, briefly discuss the importance of care for terminal cancer patients. Shots of the exterior of the Royal Marsden Hospital and then film shots of a patient and doctor in the doctor's office at the hospital. The patient sees the doctor on an outpatient basis. In this experimental hospital, patients spend their last weeks at home rather than in ward. Pauline Holmes and Dr Speed briefly discuss the experiment in care at the Royal Marsden. Then film shots show Pauline Marsden visiting a terminal cancer patient at home. Film shots of Pauline Holmes talking to the sister of the above patient about this method of outpatient care. More shots of Pauline Holmes alking to the patient. Dame Cicely Saunders, one of the founders of the hlospice movement explains how a hospice differs from a hospital. Shots of a case conference on a terminal cancer patient at the Countess Mountbatten Unit, Moor Green Hospital, Southampton. They discuss the patients' problems, mental as well as physical and how to make a start at helping him. Shots of a nurse serving alcoholic drinks to a patient in the ward. Then shots of Dame Cicely Saunders and Dr Hillier talking about the use of drugs to control pain in terminally ill cancer patients. Shots of a nurse taking medication to a patient and of several nurses discussing drug doses for a patient. Dr Hillier, Dame Cicely Saunders, Dr Griffiths and Keith Attenborough (v/o) discuss some of the misapprehensions about pain killing drugs for terminal cancer patients and the reasons for the resistance to their use among some in the medical prolession. Dame Cicely sums up the programme.
Master spool number: OU3276
Production number: FOUT047R
Videofinder number: 2209
Available to public: no