Stories to inspire a peaceful passing on Boomer Generation Radio 11/12/13

On the November 12, 2013 episode of Boomer Generation Radio, Rabbi Address speaks with Dr Lauren Van Scoy, author of Last Wish: Stories to Inspire a Peaceful Passing, about helping terminally ill patients and their families prepare for end-of-life decisions. About Dr. Van Scoy Dr. Lauren Van Scoy Dr. Van Scoy is a practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care physician and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.  She is also a writer, researcher, speaker, wife and mother. Early on in her medical residency years, Dr. Van Scoy developed an interest in critical care with a focus on end-of-life issues.  Facing critically ill patients on a daily basis in the intensive care unit, she found herself developing a deep emotional attachment to her patients and their families as she participated in their care during the end of life.  She developed knowyourwishes.com as a platform to help future patients and their families prepare for inevitable end-of-life decisions and challenges. Dr. Van Scoy's book, Last Wish: Stories to Inspire a Peaceful Passing was published in 2011 and tells the compelling true stories of six patients as they encounter and face critical illness.  Dr. Van Scoy, partnered with C-TAC (the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care) and serves as Executive Editor for the upcoming Care Chronicles, a blog sharing personal stories, to be launched in October 2013.  Dr. Van Scoy has also done free-lance writing in a multitude of different venues. Read more about Dr. Van Scoy on her book's website. Boomer Generation Radio airs on WWDB-AM 860 every Tuesday at 10 a.m., and features news and conversation aimed at Baby Boomers and the issues facing them as members of what Rabbi Address calls “the club sandwich generation.” You can hear the show live on AM 860, or streamed live from the WWDB website. Subscribe to the RSS feed for all Jewish Sacred Aging podcasts. Subscribe to these podcasts in the Apple iTunes Music Store.