Shoshana Ungerleider, M.D., is an internist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated end-of-life documentaries Extremis and End Game. Ungerleider founded End Well, an organization with the mission of creating a cultural shift to normalize discussions about the end of life with the goal of improving quality […]
A lack of health literacy may pose a barrier to patients receiving hospice or palliative care, including delaying their entry into hospice. Patients who lack an understanding of health care information or terminology, do not understand their own illnesses, or who misconstrue the nature of hospice or palliative care may lack the necessary tools to […]
How would you feel if you were told you had only 30 days to live? What would you do during your last month, your last day, your last hour? This is the question that greeted me when I arrived at a San Francisco restaurant to participate in Death Over Dinner, an event that takes place […]
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