Palliative care history is short, and the history of its research is even shorter.
In 1997, when I first met Randy Curtis at a Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars
meeting, the field of palliative care as we now know it did not exist. The American
Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), a tiny organization, had just
emerged from the even tinier Academy of Hospice Physicians. American Board of Medical
Specialties board certification would not appear for nearly another decade. And, whereas
our clinical and educational infrastructure felt threadbare, the palliative care research
landscape was completely unstitched.
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