Frontline: Being Mortal

Name: Frontline: Being Mortal
Description: Frontline follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.

Jennings, Thomas,; Kanopy (Firm)

Frontline: Being Mortal

Jennings, Thomas, filmmaker ; Kanopy (Firm)

2016

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Title

Frontline: Being Mortal

Published

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.

Language

English

Language Note

In: English

Description

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound

Duration

Playing time: 54 min.

Distributor No.

1159482 Kanopy

Summary

Frontline follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. The film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.

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Time and Place of Event

Originally produced by PBS in 2015.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Jennings, Thomas, filmmaker

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Kanopy (Firm)

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