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Robert Martensen, MD, offered a unique perspective on how to maintain dignity and resilience in the face of life’s most daunting circumstances–death and dying. The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Author Night Series presented Dr. Martensen, who read from his critically acclaimed book A Life Worth Living on December 11.
A Life Worth Living is a culmination of his experience with patients on the life cycle of serious illness, from diagnosis to the end of life.
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| The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Author Night Series presented Robert Martensen, MD, who read from his critically acclaimed book A Life Worth Living. |
Each of us will be touched by critical illness whether in our own life or in those of our loved ones. When this happens, we grapple with serious and often confusing choices about how best to live with our afflictions.
A Life Worth Living addresses timely questions:
"A Life Worth Living is a treasure. Robert Martensen tells compelling stories of people who are at once remarkable and familiar, and distills practical wisdom for living with serious illness. Their experiences illuminate common dilemmas and difficult decisions and shine a light on the wondrous and perilous world of contemporary medicine. Martensen writes with the insights of an experienced clinician, the perspective of an historian, and the voice of a close friend." — Ira Byock, MD, author of Dying Well and The Four Things That Matter Most
Dr. Martensen began his medical career in San Francisco in the late 1970s and 1980s, when the first wave of patients with what became known as HIV/AIDS began flowing through its ERs. He has since treated hundreds of thousands of ER and ICU patients nearing the end of life.
Posted on December 4, 2008
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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