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The Lost Art of Dying (with Dr. Lydia Dugdale)

Good Faith

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The Tension Between Technological Imperatives and Deeper Existential Desires of Dying Patients

There is this tension and sometimes even outright conflict between the technological imperatives of medicine and the deeper existential spiritual desires and longings of dying patients. I think listeners who have Had a loved one die may instinctively pick up what how that tension works out. And why it sometimes feels like everyone is on this Just train towards Prolong trying to prolong every bit of life at the expense of these deeper values It's such a great question, some friends of mine are up in boston at harvard and Tracy bell bony Is a radiation oncologist there.

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