Dr. Leal: "It is cheaper to end a patient's life than to accompany him".
The lack of palliative care in many countries "is due to a lack of interest on the part of public administrations. A management that, under a materialistic conception of the human being, prioritizes numbers over people," Dr. Francisco Leal (Hagen, Germany), director of the Pain Unit at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid, who is taking part in a conference on "Notions of medicine for priests," tells Omnes.