Dr. Sunita Puri is the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine Service at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, where she also serves as Chair of the Ethics Committee. Sunita is the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, an 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. Her work has been featured on PBS' Amanpour Show, the Guardian, NPR, the Atlantic, Forbes, and People Magazine, which named her book the Book of the Week. She has also written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. For more, please visit sunitapuri.com
In this episode we explore:
- Sunita’s personal journey toward greater self-acceptance
- Why honesty is a form of kindness
- How curiosity can be a key factor in keeping the heart open in the face of difficulty
- Strategies for having courageous conversations about what really matters in life
- What death can teach us about living well
- Empathy - why it’s about asking the questions that need to be listened to
- A few of Sunita’s learnings about when to keep fighting, and when to let go
- The role of courage in living a life without regret
- And more!
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