CREEDS OF OUR TIMES 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Being Mortal (60 min; 2015; dvd; English)

Director: Thomas Jennings

 

The film follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction with Gawande’s new book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors — himself included — are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)