EP 113: Designing a Good Death | Sunita Puri

On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing a good
death. Dr. Sunita Puri is the Program Director of the Hospice and
Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of Massachusetts,
where she is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. She
completed medical school and residency training in internal
medicine at the University of California San Francisco followed by
a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Stanford. She is
the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh
Hour, a critically acclaimed literary memoir examining her journey
to the practice of palliative medicine, and her quest to help
patients and families redefine what it means to live and die well
in the face of serious illness. A graduate of Yale University and
the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, her writing has appeared in
the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, JAMA, and,
forthcoming, the New Yorker. She and her work have been featured in
the Atlantic, People Magazine, PBS’ Christian Amanpour Show, NPR,
the Guardian, BBC, India Today, and Literary Hub. She is passionate
about the ways that the precise and compassionate use of language
can empower patients and physicians to have the right conversations
about living and dying.  Episode mentions and links:
https://sunitapuri.com/ That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the
Eleventh Hour on Amazon Why 'lost their battle' with serious
illness is the wrong thing to say via NPR We Must Learn to Look at
Grief, Even When We Want to Run Away via NYT Restaurants Sunita
would take you to:  El Condor LA Momed LA Worcester: Mare E
Monti Trattoria Follow Sunita: Twitter | Instagram Episode Website:
https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/113