Videos

Description:   This link is to a great television special that aired April 14th, 2010 on PBS.  The special is hosted by Katie Couric who does a really nice job communicating between the viewers and some of the Sesame St. characters like "Elmo".  Couric and Elmo begin discussing death and grieving when Elmo tells Couric that

Description:  This Bryan Harnetiaux play offers a warm and often funny exploration of a family’s struggle with a variety of end-of-life issues as they come to terms with the eventual loss of their matriarch, Vesta. This 90-minute drama has been used by hospices, churches, divinity schools, medical schools, and other organizations all over the nation

Description:  Dr. Milch is the inaugural winner of the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Established Physician Award for excellence in clinical care for patients near the end of life and national leadership in palliative care.  In this video provided by The Hastings Center, Andy Baxter (Founder of The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation) and Thomas H. Murray, PhD (CEO of

Description:  Enjoy this short video produced by the Hastings Center, featuring interviews with the 2010 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician awardees and information on this years nominations.  We are excited for our second year of prizes!  Link:  Visit Site Media Provided By:  The Hastings Center Video:  Sorry, you need to install flash to see this content.

Description:  This is a short video with Diane Meier, MD, FACP from getpallaitivecare.org offering her views on what palliative care is and what type of patients and situations could benefit from it.   Duration:  1min 38sec Link:  Visit Site

Description:  This is a short clip of Diane Meier, MD, FACP posted on getpalliativecare.org talking about who might be eligible for palliative care and for what reasons.   Duration:  1min 6sec Link:  Visit Site

Description:  This is a short video of Diane Meier, MD, FACP posted on getpalliativecare.org talking about hospital palliative care teams.  She speaks about the unique communication skills they provide within the healthcare system and specific symptoms that palliative care teams can treat best.   Link:  Visit Site

Description:  This is a short clip of Diane Meier, MD, FACP posted on getpalliativecare.org talking about the differences between hospice and palliative care.  She emphasizes the barriers that exist with certain Hospice requirements given that doctors are not all that accurate at predicting when a patient has only six months to live.   Duration:  2min Link: 

Synopsis:  This video is a short segment taken from the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation 2009 Symposium on the 'Art of Medicine at the End of Life' held at the New York Academy of Medicine.  In this clip Diane Meier talks candidly about "having the hard conversation" when a Doctor has to inform a patient that he or