End of Life Care in the ICU

Our guest is Dr. BJ Miller, a palliative care physician at the University of California, San Francisco and former Executive Director of Zen Hospice Project. He is a powerful advocate for the role of our senses, community, and presence in delivering palliative care and for ushering in a new perspective on living with death.

Additional Resources:
What really matters at the end of life, BJ Miller presented at TED 2015: https://bit.ly/1PlAuNP
Clinician-Family Communication About Patients' Values and Preferences in Intensive Care Units.
Scheunemann LP et al, JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019: https://bit.ly/2LEH0Y5
A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger: https://amzn.to/30VVWEV
Vital Talk courses, a set of online and in person courses designed to equip clinicians with the tools to have difficult conversations with patients and families:https://bit.ly/30SPrm6

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: https://amzn.to/2JPJjFQ
Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing by Michael Kearney: https://amzn.to/2YkDPuF
Bering Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande: https://amzn.to/2GsTXjH
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker: https://amzn.to/2SyY7LI