PBS: “Moyers on Dying”

May 15, 2008 by admin 

Bill Moyers goes from the bedsides of the dying to the front lines of a movement to improve end-of-life care in ON OUR OWN TERMS: Moyers on Dying.

Two years in production, this four-part, six-hour series crosses the country from hospitals to hospices to homes to capture some of the most intimate stories ever filmed and the most candid conversations ever shared with a television audience.

The Need to Plan: Program 1
Dr. Pat Caralis, University of Miami/Jackson Medical Center

Discussing Advance Directives: Program 2
Dr. Diane Meier, Hertzberg Palliative Care Center, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine with Bill Moyers
Hospice and Support: Program 1
Terminal Esophageal Cancer Patient Dr. Bill Bartholome and his wife, Pam Roffol Dobbies

View more of these videos.

ON OUR OWN TERMS: Moyers on Dying was produced by Public Affairs Television, Inc. and presented on PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York. Video tapes of the series may be ordered by calling Films of the Humanities at 1-800-257-5126.

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