[Communication in the patient care team about palliative situations' results of a survey at the Laennec Hospital, Paris]

The authors report results from a sample survey in a university hospital in connection with the aspects of communication in medical team about paliative situations. The questionnaire, made from a paliative care group, consults the usual practices and during crisis just as patient is dying, in a curative medical care. Hospital is not a place to die. Difficulty in survey are probably in keeping with individual and collective defences opposite to dying patient.