Videos

Description:  This Gel Video is of Bridget Duffy speaking at the 2009 Gel Health conference.  She talks about her recent experience as a patient with a broken leg and how that has continued to inspire her work improving the patient experience.  Link:  Visit Site Media Video:  Related Resources:  Gel Health Conference 2009 Video: Dr. Bridget

Description:  Enjoy this short video produced by the Hastings Center, featuring interviews with the 2010 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician awardees and information on this years nominations.  We are excited for our second year of prizes!  Link:  Visit Site Media Provided By:  The Hastings Center Video:  Sorry, you need to install flash to see this content.

Description:  Dr. Milch is the inaugural winner of the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Established Physician Award for excellence in clinical care for patients near the end of life and national leadership in palliative care.  In this video provided by The Hastings Center, Andy Baxter (Founder of The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation) and Thomas H. Murray, PhD (CEO of

Description:  This Bryan Harnetiaux play offers a warm and often funny exploration of a family’s struggle with a variety of end-of-life issues as they come to terms with the eventual loss of their matriarch, Vesta. This 90-minute drama has been used by hospices, churches, divinity schools, medical schools, and other organizations all over the nation

Description:   This link is to a great television special that aired April 14th, 2010 on PBS.  The special is hosted by Katie Couric who does a really nice job communicating between the viewers and some of the Sesame St. characters like "Elmo".  Couric and Elmo begin discussing death and grieving when Elmo tells Couric that

Link:  Visit Site Media Provided By:  This is an informative continuing medical education video (January 8, 2008) from the University of California Davis Medical School on the role of the primary care physician in advanced care planning.  Ben A. Rich, J.D., PhD., addresses the importance and role of advanced directives as well as the shortcomings

Description:  The link below is to a November 6, 2009 episode of democracy now where Amy Goodman interviews Anna Deavere Smith who researched, wrote and perfoms "Let Me Down Easy" -- a solo act about various trials and tribulations within the U.S health care system.  There is a short article and a great video interview

Synopsis:  Visiting children and their families in the hospital, Clown Care founder Michael Christensen has learned to focus on "what's going right" in the room. Speaking at the first Gel Health conference, Christensen describes how his clown rounds got started, and finishes with an on-stage performance as Dr. Stubs. Source:  GEL (Good Experience Live) Health

Synopsis:  Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.  This talk is very entertaining, interesting and packed with information that supports the healing wonders of the body-- even when illness and disease have already set in.  Source:  Website: TED ideas worth spreading Vol/Page/Date: