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What does it mean to die well? What would it mean to face death with a view towards genuine human flourishing? What does it mean to be a good physician when faced with a dying patient? What vision of medicine should we encourage in our medical institutions and practitioners?
Join two physician academics with different visions of what it means to die well for a respectful and stimulating conversation: Professor Lydia Dugdale (Columbia) and Professor Timothy Quill (Rochester).
When: Tues. October 6, 2020 at 7:30 pm CDT
Where: Zoom, RVSP Here
Email vs15@rice.edu for more information
Lydia Dugdale MD, MAR, is associate professor of medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist.
She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying Well (HarperOne, 2020).
Timothy E. Quill, M.D. is the Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Distinguished Professor of Palliative Care, and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine (URMC). He was the Founding Director of the URMC Palliative Care Program and is the Acting Director of the URMC Paul M. Schyve Center for Bioethics. He is also a board certified palliative care consultant in Rochester, New York.
He is the author of several books on end-of life, including Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together (Oxford University Press, 2001), and A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), and numerous articles published in major medical journals.
