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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland; Faculty of Medicine, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. jpawlikowski@wp.pl
• ² Interdisciplinary Institute of Bioethics, the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Kraków, Poland
• ³ Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, Kraków, Poland
• ⁴ Department of Palliative Care, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Toruń, Poland