Life and medicine in the eleventh hour

Our health care system promotes saving and extending life at all costs — sometimes sacrificing patients’ own desires on how to spend their final moments. In many families, conversations about how a loved one would prefer to die happen too late or not at all. The emerging field of palliative care seeks to shift how we think about the end of life, how we communicate with doctors and family members, and how we turn those conversations into a plan that guides a final journey. Dr. Sunita Puri is at the forefront of this field, and her new book, “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour,” harnesses the intimate power of storytelling to spur a deeper discussion about how patients and doctors can work together to restore meaning and dignity to the end of life. For journalists, it can be difficult to report this crucial part of the health care story. In this webinar, we’ll share insights and suggestions for those seeking to deepen their understanding and coverage of palliative care and end-of-life issues.

Panelists

• Dr. Sunita Puri, author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour and the medical director for palliative care at the Keck Medical Center and Norris Cancer Center of USC
• Fran Smith, nationally recognized writer and editor and author of Changing the Way We Die, which won an Independent Book Publishers Award

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