COAST TO COAST AM - February 21 2017 - END-OF-LIFE APPROACHES

"Coast to Coast AM February 21, 2017. Jessica Zitter, M.D. is an expert on the medical experience of death and dying. She attended Stanford University and Case Western Reserve Medical School and is featured in Extremis, an Oscar-nominated documentary about end-of-life decision-making in an ICU. In the first half, she discussed her ideas for a better way to exit life that could change some of the basic tenets of medical culture.
Dr. Zitter realized that in many cases, in her attempts to prolong lives, such as by hooking patients up to feeding or breathing tubes, she was actually causing more suffering for them. Because of this she added a new type of medical training-- palliative care, to her regular practice at the ICU."