As per the findings of a new report, doctors are so obsessed with curing sick patients that some terminally ill patients end up being poorly cared for as well as uninformed about their looming death.

Noting that seven out of every ten Australians die an expected death, apparently because doctors fail to precisely forecast the length of survival time the patients are likely left with, the report underlines the need for accepting palliative care a part of parcel of medicine.

The palliative care issue will comprehensively be dealt with in a new Four Corners’ series on ABC, based on reporter Deb Masters’ ten-week-long observations of four terminally ill patients at Sacred Heart Palliative Care Unit, at St Vincent's Public Hospital in Sydney.

Titled ‘A Good Death’ the new series - which recommends that palliative care must be accepted as an “integral part of medicine” and “resourced appropriately” - will commence on ABC1 at 8.30 p. m. on Monday.

Meanwhile, saying that some doctors prescribe inappropriate care to patients largely because they cannot tell them that they are dying, Sacred Heart director Dr Richard Chye added: “I think a lot of doctors find it very hard to say: ‘You're dying;’ I can't give you any more treatment.’”

Chye also said that he tells his patients: “‘I know I cannot cure you, but I can make you feel better. I will walk with you.’”