O ne of the main goals of medicine is to provide comfort and relief from pain and suffering. Unfortunately, a cure is not always possible particularly in this era of chronic diseases, and the role of physicians has become limited to controlling and palliating symptoms.
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Al-Mahrezi et al. (2016) studied this question.
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