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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		How we die matters. This hospice doctor helps Rwandans heal, shape relationship with death.
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:09:58
	Publish Date:		2019-05-04 12:00:00
	Description:		When David Slack thinks about why he became a hospice and palliative care doctor, he thinks back to his grandmother's death when he was about 12. "Rather than it being a terrifying or frightening thing for me, my family, my mother in particular, made it really safe," he said. He remembers his mother taking him by the hand, leading him to his grandmother's bedside, and telling him to say goodbye. Slack, a doctor for Kaiser Permanente in Washington, now cares for patients in the final months of their lives, helping them live as comfortably and fully as possible once they've discontinued treatments aimed at curing their conditions.
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