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Phillipa Knaggs

Phillipa Knaggs is training to be a general practitioner in the U.K., and has an M.A. in bioethics and medical law from St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London.

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Palliative Care and Dignity

Published by Phillipa Knaggs

To be healed does not mean to be cured. Cure restores a former state of being, an expected state, a comfortable state. Medical treatment and prayers for miracles of cure are powerful and sometimes effective. Healing, however, encompasses a much greater and deeper change in someone’s life. Cure may be part of this, but is not a necessary part. Healing opens up a new life, a new way of understanding...