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The way we die: listening to the terminally ill

producer and director, Jonathan Mednick; co-director, Ted Skillman; produced by Other Pictures, Inc. for the Virginia Health Policy Center, the University of Virginia
Resource Type:
Streaming Video
Distribution:
[Boston, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by] The Fanlight Collection, [1995]
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Summary:
Through interviews with doctors, patients, and family members, and through filmed interactions between medical personnel and their terminally ill patients, this video addresses a pervasive problem in healthcare today: the excessive and restrictive focus on treating diseases, not people. It makes a case that physicians and nurses must be trained to treat the whole patient, and encourages health care professionals to work with their patients to devise treatment plans in accordance with their needs, values, and wishes.
Contributors:
Mednick, Jonathan , film director, film producer, photographer, editor of moving image work
Skillman, Ted , film director
Other Pictures, Inc.
University of Virginia > Virginia Health Policy Center
Fanlight Productions
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Terminal care
Medical personnel and patient
Physician and patient
Health counseling
Medical technology — Decision-making
Life and death, Power over
Death — Psychological aspects
Medical technology
Decision making
Death
Genres:
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Internet videos
Online media
System Details:
Digital format: System requirements: Adobe Flash or equivalent.
Production Credits:
Photographed & edited by Jonathan Mednick.
General Notes:
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Originally produced by: Virginia Health Policy Center, the University of Virginia, ©1995.
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).
Public performance rights included.
Institutional Streaming Licenses permit screening on the Unified Campus to a group only when no admission is charged and there is no advertising outside the learning community.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (24 min.)) : sound, color
Audio Characteristics:
digital
Digital Characteristics:
video file
Call Numbers:
Online Video
Other Standard Numbers:
Publisher Number, Docuseek2: fn-wawe
OCLC Numbers:
987276417
Other Control Numbers:
[Unknown Type]: doc00001114