A leading palliative care doctor, who himself is battling stage-4 cancer, continues to pursue his life's work of providing in-home support to terminally ill patients to allow them to live their final days with dignity.Fumio Yamazaki, 75, started his career as a doctor at a hospital in the 1970s and witnessed first-hand the suffering and despair of people dying of cancer in hospital wards.As it was considered taboo in Japan at the time to inform cancer patients of their true diagnosis, they were left in the dark and without knowing the nature of their condition.Although doctors knew there wa…READ FULL ARTICLE
