Tag: end of life

  • Nation & World

    ‘Why is God doing this to me?’

    Inspired by recent study, Harvard Divinity School panelists explore the spiritual side of health care.

    4 minutes
    Spirituality and Serious Illness panel.
  • Nation & World

    Gawande confronts the inevitable

    Death, imperfection, and rock ’n’ roll were all part of surgeon-author Atul Gawande’s conversation with Dean David Hempton at HDS convocation.

    4 minutes
    Atul Gawande and Dean Hempton
  • Nation & World

    Preoccupied with life

    Harvard-affiliated surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explores big questions around end-of-life care in “Being Mortal.”

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Good health lasts later in life

    Working from data collected between 1991 and 2009 from almost 90,000 individuals who responded to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, Professor David Cutler has found that, even as life expectancy has increased over the past two decades, people have become increasingly healthier later in life.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What the end-of-life conversation can bring

    Professor Holly Prigerson, director of the Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has confronted the issue professionally and personally. Last fall Prigerson and her co-investigators published a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association examining how end-of-life care discussions between doctors and terminal patients affected the…

    1 minute