The End Well Project: Reimaginging Dying, with Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider at Exponential Medicine 2017

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Channel: NextMed Health · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Medical advances have often shifted agency over our final days from what we might want to de-facto protocols and procedures that are often not in alignment with individual values and quality of life goals. How might we transform the end of life experience to making ending well possible for all?  At Exponential Medicine 2017 we remembered the remarkable pediatrician Janet Sollod  (watch her extraordinary talk from 2017 on living with metastatic breast cancer and  'Optimistically Approaching The Abyss'  Together with her friends Drs Naomi Dabby and Steven G. Eisenberg we honored Janet and then heard  Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, a palliative care physician who cared for Janet, on the End Well Project which is seeking to reimagine the end of life into a human-centered experience... 

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