The killings of an Ebola education team illustrate yet another horror of the disease: Not all of the dangers are viral. Eight bodies, three of them belonging to journalists, were found in a remote part of southeastern Guinea after an attack on a team trying to teach people about the virus, Reuters reported. Government spokesman Albert Camara […]
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End-of-life care isn’t a subject that usually dominates media headlines. But over the past few weeks, the story of Brittany Maynard — a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal brain cancer who has chosen to end her life on Nov. 1 rather than allow the disease to progress — has stirred a national conversation about death […]
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Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, the WORLD Channel is hosting a live online screening of FRONTLINE’s Ebola Outbreak simultaneously with its WORLD broadcast. The film will stream online with a live chat in which Wael Dabbous, who produced and directed the documentary, will take your questions. In collaboration with the Channel 4 foreign affairs series Unreported World, the […]
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Why Is It So Hard for Doctors to Talk to Patients About Death?
by PBS June 10, 2016Dr. Atul Gawande just wanted to give a patient some hope. But he ended up saying something he would regret. In FRONTLINE’s new film Being Mortal, Gawande remembers treating Sara Monopoli, a woman who was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer at 34, in the ninth month of her pregnancy. After giving birth to a […]
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“What are the fears that you have? What are the goals that you have? What’s more important to you than anything — besides living longer?” Those were among the difficult questions surgeon and writer Atul Gawande and his mother asked his ailing father, who had been diagnosed with a tumor in his spinal cord. “He […]
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In his book Being Mortal, writer and surgeon Atul Gawande has a chapter titled “Hard Conversations.” He writes about the extremely difficult, yet ultimately rewarding conversations his father, who was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor, had with his loved ones and with his doctors. The conversations allowed Gawande’s father to make critical decisions about his […]
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Dr. Atul Gawande: “Hope is Not a Plan” When Doctors, Patients Talk Death
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016The United States has a problem when it comes to conversations around death and dying, says Dr. Atul Gawande. Patients with life-threatening illnesses tend to focus on how to beat the steep odds against them, he says, without hearing from their doctors about how certain kinds of treatment might actually worsen their remaining time alive. It’s understandable, […]
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If you knew you were dying, what would you do with the time you had left? For Debbie Whitmore, a young mother diagnosed with stage four colon cancer, the answer was simple: spend quality time, including a trip to Disney World, with her husband and four children. Debbie and her family share their story in […]