At end of life, Baylor team fights the current, sometimes loses

Primary Author: Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News

Part of a Dallas Morning News series on efforts to improve end-of-life medical care, this article covers efforts to ease suffering at the end-of-life at the Baylor University Medical Center. Included is a video in which Dr. Robert Fine and nurse Min Patel of the palliative care team discuss how to bring healing to patients and families at the end of life.

Baylor team helps families understand death, face it together

Primary Author: Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News

Part of a Dallas Morning News series on efforts to improve end-of-life medical care, this article describes a Baylor University Medical Center palliative care team's efforts to help patients and families face the end of life. Included is a video chronicling the story of one of their patients and her family.

Health and Spirituality (CME/CEU course)

Primary Author: Anne Harrington, Harvard University

Free online video CME/CEU course provided by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The learning objectives are to understand the range of research traditions today that are investigating the relationship between health and spiritual practice; to understand the various historical roots of these traditions and how they interact in our own time; and to understand the different kinds of challenges-intellectual, ethical, political-raised by this research enterprise.

NOTE: You will need to register with the NCCAM website to view this video and take the course.

Spiritual Assessment in Clinical Practice

Primary Author: Christina M Puchalski, George Washington University Medical Center

Spirituality and Health in Late Life

Primary Author: Michael Rabow, UCSF Medical Center

One hour video of Dr. Rabow discussing issues related to spirituality in health late in life and at the end of life. He discusses definitions of spirituality, the evidence about the relationship between spirituality and health, spiritual issues late in life, and the physician-patient relationship.

From the series: "UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public"