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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: How Do You Want Your Life To End? with Dr. Sunita Puri
Description: My guest is Dr. Sunita Puri, a palliative-care physician and author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour. We talk about what it really means to care for patients when cure is no longer the goal, why our medical system resists honest conversations about death, and how clarity and compassion can coexist at the end of life. Topics we cover:   • What palliative care really provides (beyond hospice)   • Why "more treatment" ≠"more life"   • Prognosis, probabilities, and telling the truth kindly   • How families can ask the right questions   • Documentation that matters (and what to a...