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Dr. Sunita Puri on Dying with Dignity
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Dr. Sunita Puri was raised in a spiritual family who taught her the significance of not only life, but of death. Now as a director of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, she has spent an innumerable amount of hours helping terminally-ill patients and their family members make end-of-life decisions. Dr. Puri outlines this intersection of her family’s spirituality and her medical career in her 2019 memoir “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour”. In episode 19 of Beyond the Prescription Dr. Puri and Dr. McBride blend their collective experiences as medical professionals into an insightful and honest discussion about the role of medicine in the quality and quantity of life. Join Dr. Lucy McBride every Tuesday for a new episode of Beyond the Prescription on Apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you catch your podcasts. Find her at lucymcbride.com/podcast. Get full access to Are You Okay? at lucymcbride.substack.com/subscribe
Released:
Sep 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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