End of life patients facing death /

All through medical school, internship, and residency, doctors are trained to be healers. What can they contribute to the care of patients whose illnesses are beyond their help? This ABC News program examines the crusading efforts of oncologist Dr. Michael Carducci, of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to cre...

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Other Authors: ABC News Productions., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c2000.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (48 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Series: Hopkins 24-7.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Palliative Care (3:23)
  • Fighting Kidney Cancer: Martina Ringgold (4:04)
  • Fighting Kidney Cancer: Jeff Schmidt (5:28)
  • Palliative Care Committee (2:22)
  • Jeff Schmidt's Health Declines (2:08)
  • End of Life Care (1:40)
  • Preparing Family Members (3:47)
  • End of Life Decisions (5:34)
  • A Special Patient (2:46)
  • Dying at Home with Hospice Care (5:07)
  • Martina Ringgold's Wedding (3:08)
  • Jeff Schmidt's Last Days (4:54)
  • Martina Ringgold's Wedding Reception (2:31)