Wednesday, March 22, 2017
12:15–2:00 pm
William K. Sanford Town Library (Colonie) [Map]
629 Albany Shaker Rd, Albany, NY 12211
We will show the 2015 PBS FRONTLINE program on Dr. Atul Gawande, author of the best-selling book Being Mortal, followed by a discussion afterwards.
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. In conjunction with Gawande’s new book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors — himself included — are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.
The meeting is free and open to the public.
No program video is available.