Palliative Care

Stanford Palliative Medicine on YouTube

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Lecture/Webinar Recordings
Palliative Care Playlist on SHC’s YouTube Account
View recordings of Stanford palliative care webinars to learn more about how palliative care interdisciplinary teams provide holistic care for people and families living with serious illness to improve their quality of life, at any age and any stage of a serious illness.
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Videos

Before I Go : Time Warps For a Young Surgeon With Metastatic Lung Cancer by Paul Kalanithi, M.D.
Jim Cooper's Legacy : A Veteran's Story
Jonathan King Ethics Class
The Nurse With the Purple Hair
No prior knowledge of hospice is needed to understand this film; it is a tool that could educate patients, families, and trainees on hospice care.
Palliative Care on the Front Lines of COVID-19

DVDs

Caring For Dying : The Art of Being Present by On the Edge Productions ; producer/director, Michelle Peticolas.
Call Number: BF789.D4 C27 2008
Publication Date: 2008 : DVD: c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Reserves: Course Reserves
The delicate balance of life, death, and love is explored through the experiences of families facing death.
Dying Wish : A Dying Doctor's Decision to Stop Eating and Drinking and Die With Grace by a WordWise production ; director, Karen van Vuuren ; producers, Karen van Vuuren, Francesca Nicosia.
Call Number: R726 .D95 2008
Publication Date: 2008 : DVD: c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Reserves: Course Reserves
Michael Miller, a retired surgeon at the end-stage of pancreatic cancer, decides to stop eating and drinking to achieve a more natural death. Medical ethicists and hospice staff discuss issues with patients' rights.
Facing Death-- With Open Eyes by On the Edge Productions ; producer/director, Michelle Peticolas.
Call Number: BF789.D4 F32 2008
Publication Date: 2008 : DVD: c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Reserves: Course Reserves
Stunned by the loss of both her parents and by the lack of cultural dialogue, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself and four wise souls to explore the personal and spiritual possibilities of facing death with open eyes.
The Heart of Grieving by On the Edge Productions ; producer, director, Michelle Peticolas.
Call Number: BF575.G7 H393 2010
Publication Date: 2010 : DVD: c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Reserves: Course Reserves
The film is about the arduous, at times ecstatic, process of grieving death. From diagnosis to death to mourning, the film explores the heart and soul of grief.
The Nurse With the Purple Hair by Sean S. Cunningham.
Call Number: RT87.T45 N8 2017
Publication Date: 2017 : DVD: c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Reserves: Course Reserves
The film highlights how families can learn to accept death with compassion, wisdom, and grace. It's impossible to watch this film without feeling deeply grateful to these wonderful caring people as we watch them do their jobs with extraordinary kindness and love.

Palliative Care

Stanford Palliative Medicine on YouTube

Videos

DVDs

National Hospice on YouTube