What's in the Syringe?: Principles of Early Integrated Palliative Care

offers a succinct overview of the psychological skills of outpatient palliative care, teaching clinicians how to help patients live well and acknowledge end of life as patients meet five challenges of serious illness.

It explores how to help patients develop prognostic awareness, through which they pair hopes and worries and see themselves with clarity and empathy.

The book also teaches clinicians how to support patients' coping skills.

As patients use these skills, they improve their quality of life and deepen their prognostic awareness, helping them make informed medical and personal decisions as they approach end of life.