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The way we die : listening to the terminally ill / producer and director, Jonathan Mednick ; co-director, Ted Skillman ; produced by Other Pictures, Inc. for the Virginia Health Policy Center, the University of Virginia.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care.
- Medical personnel and patient.
- Physician and patient.
- Health counseling.
- Medical technology--Decision making.
- Medical technology.
- Decision making.
- Life and death, Power over.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Death.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (24 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by] The Fanlight Collection, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Through interviews with doctors, patients, and family members, and through filmed interactions between medical personnel and their terminally ill patients, this video addresses a pervasive problem in healthcare today: the excessive and restrictive focus on treating diseases, not people. It makes a case that physicians and nurses must be trained to treat the whole patient, and encourages health care professionals to work with their patients to devise treatment plans in accordance with their needs, values, and wishes.
- Credits:
- Photographed & edited by Jonathan Mednick.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Virginia Health Policy Center, the University of Virginia, ©1995.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- fn-wawe Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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