Health-care journalist and essayist based in California, and author of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door; The Path to a Better Way of Death” and “The Art of Dying Well; A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life. ” She also is the founder of the “Slow Medicine” group on Facebook.
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