University Place

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Special | 55m 26s  | Video has closed captioning.

Atul Gawande, Author, Surgeon, Professor, Harvard Medical School, joins Anne Strainchamps, Executive Producer and Host, Wisconsin Public Radio, in a conversation about death and dying. Gawande addresses the goal of providing a better quality of life for the patient and their family with a focus on maintaining the dignity of the patient up to the end.

Aired: 10/23/14

Rating: TV-G

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