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Ethics Talk: End-of-Life Conversations with Patients and Their Families - December 2013

Published: Dec. 1, 2013, 11 a.m.

Virtual Mentor issue editor Sophia Cedola, a medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, interviewed Dr. Craig Blinderman about talking with patients who are terminally ill, asking him whether there are some key \u201cdo\u2019s\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019ts\u201d for having end-of-life conversations with patients and their families. Dr. Blinderman is the Director of the Adult Palliative Medicine Service and Co-Director of the Center for Supportive Care and Clinical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.