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• Why Use Documentary to Enhance Medical Education?

  “The teenagers I photographed taught me a lot, even as many of them struggled with serious challenges in their own lives. Having gone out to meet with them in their world, I came away with no neat formulations about teenage pregnancy but rather a richer, more accurate context in which to see them, and I hope, better understand their experience.” – John Moses, M.D. (Duke Medical Perspectives, Volume 17, Number 2)

• "Once we allow ourselves to listen with compassion and to let the full implications of their suffering register on us, we are in a position to change the state of affairs. It will not always lead to a cure, and it will not always lead to a change in the medical treatment, but it can lead to a radical change for the patient. It can confer recognition and communion, ending the isolation and strangerliness of sickness." -Rita Charon, general internist and director of Columbia University's Program in Narrative Medicine, from the book "Let me take a listen to your heart."

About the Film This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a film crew. They do so in the hope that their experience will be useful to the audience in managing its own fear of dying and [...]

About the Exhibit and Book Grace Before Dying is an award-winning photographic documentary by Lori Waselchuk that chronicles the prisoner-run hospice program at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana’s maximum-security prison. Through a Distribution Grant from the Open Society Documentary Photography Project, Waselchuk collaborated with the Angola Hospice Volunteer Quilters to build a traveling exhibit featuring photographs [...]

Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE. How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? When the moment comes, and you’re confronted with the prospect of “pulling the plug,” do you know how you’ll respond? In Facing Death, FRONTLINE gains extraordinary access to The Mount Sinai Medical Center, [...]

About the Film Meet Ron. He is everyman. Negotiating the final deal with grit, humor and a gentleness that he tried to keep under wraps. With penetrating wisdom and an unexpected wistfulness he will take you on a journey that will make you laugh and remind you to make every moment count. For more information [...]

About the Film Graceful Passages, The Hospice Journals offers an inside look into the poignant world of Hospice care as seen through the eyes of caregivers, patients and staff. The 60-minute film was created by Jon R. Hand, an independent filmmaker who spent over two years with Hospice patients and staff. Graceful Passages follows several patients and [...]

The Book, Exhibit and Film In 1996, in an effort to foster a broader understanding of hospice, the Corcoran Gallery of the Arts and the National Hospice Foundation produced this book. They commissioned a series of visual essays from five well-known photographers—challenging each of them to express through his or her art the essence of [...]

By Atul Gawande (For Annals of Medicine for the New Yorker) Sara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It started with a cough and a pain in her back. Then a chest X-ray showed that her left lung had collapsed, and her chest [...]

In this story, we follow one hospice patient through the last two months of her life. This piece was broadcast on American Public Radio.

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