Radiolab from WNYC: Shorts: The Bitter End

December 11, 2014 12:43 PM

We turn to doctors to save our lives -- to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what doctors want done for themselves.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (2 comments total)

This podcast was eye-opening for me, in terms of the results of the doctor surveys cited at the start of the podcast. Very well done, and a memorable one.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 12:44 PM on December 11, 2014

Such a good episode. I did a little fist pump when the one physician said he always asks his patients how they want to die. This is a conversation every primary care physician should get to have with their patients.
posted by ocherdraco at 4:27 PM on December 16, 2014