Summary: In this program, NewsHour correspondent Susan Dentzer reports on life and death in Sun City, Arizona, a vibrant retirement community where hospice is the preferred form of end-of-life care. Dartmouth Medical School's John Wennberg and others consider the desire of many senior citizens with terminal illnesses to make peace with death rather than fight it. They also confront the fact that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Operating theaters and patient rooms, labs and pharmacies, the maternity ward and the morgue: this program works its way through some of the many units of a hospital as it spotlights staff members doing their jobs. From sterilizing equipment to correctly interpreting the dance of cells across a computer screen to treating patients, these professionals deal with crucial matters every day.even as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006