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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Being mortal / a Frontline production with 2over10 Media ; producer and director Thomas Jennings ; correspondent, Atul Gawande ; written by Thomas Jennings and Atul Gawande ; produced and directed by Thomas Jennings ; producer, Lauren Mucciolo ; director (India production unit), Nisha Pahuja.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2015]

[Arlington, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.

Subjects:

Terminal Care.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Terminally ill -- Care.

Death.

Physician and patient.

Medical television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Gawande, Atul, interviewer, screenwriter.