Designing a Good Death | Sunita Puri
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On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing a good death. Dr. Sunita Puri is the Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, where she is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. She completed medical school and residency training in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco followed by a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Stanford. She is the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, a critically acclaimed literary memoir examining her journey to the practice of palliative medicine, and her quest to help patients and families redefine what it means to live and die well in the face of serious illness. A graduate of Yale University and the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, JAMA, and, forthcoming, the New Yorker. She and her work have been featured in the Atlantic, People Magazine, PBS’ Christian Amanpour Show, NPR, the Guardian, BBC, India Today, and Literary Hub. She is passionate about the ways that the precise and compassionate use of language can empower patients and physicians to have the right conversations about living and dying.  Episode mentions and links: https://sunitapuri.com/ That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour on Amazon Why 'lost their battle' with serious illness is the wrong thing to say via NPR We Must Learn to Look at Grief, Even When We Want to Run Away via NYT Restaurants Sunita would take you to:  El Condor LA Momed LA Worcester: Mare E Monti Trattoria Follow Sunita: Twitter | Instagram Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/113
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