BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician who has worked in many settings, inpatient, outpatient, hospice facility and home and now sees patients and families at U.C.S.F. Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Miller speaks all over the country and beyond on the theme of living well in the face of death. He’s also the founder of the Center for Dying and Living. He is co-author, with Shoshana Berger, of A Beginners Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death (Simon & Schuster 2019)

Interview Date:12/3/2019      Tags: MP3, BJ Miller, caregiving, dementia, Alzheimer’s, etiologies of dementia, physician assisted death, physician aid in dying, VCED, voluntary cessation of eating and drinking, unplugging from life-sustaining treatments, comfort care, getting out of the way of death, Death & Dying