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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Special | 55m 26sVideo has Closed Captions

Atul Gawande and Anne Strainchamps explore quality of life issues, death and dying.

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.

10/23/2014 | Rating TV-G

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Special | 55m 26sVideo has Closed Captions

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.

10/23/2014 | Rating TV-G

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