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Mon, Jun 11, 2007 -- 10:00 AM

End of Life Care (Part Two)


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In the second hour of its special live remote broadcast from California Pacific Medical Center's Health and Healing Library, the show concludes with an examination of social, historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives on death and dying.

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • Ira Byock, director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national grant program
  • Sandy Chen Stokes, clinical nurse specialist for El Dorado County Public Health and chair of the Chinese-American Coalition for Compassionate Care
  • Sharon Kaufman, professor of medical anthropology at UCSF with the Institute for Health and Aging
  • Steve Pantilat, professor and physician at the palliative care program at UCSF
  • Tim Patriarca, executive director of Maitri AIDS Hospice
  • William Stewart, medical director for the Institute for Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center

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