Dr. BJ Miller: ...that independence doesn't really exist

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic has made everyone think about the possibility of death. However, most of us still choose to avoid conversations with our family about what our last wishes would be. To help us learn how to start those tough conversations, we turn to Dr. BJ Miller, a longtime hospice and palliative medicine physican whose TED Talk on what matters most at the end of life has been viewed more than 11 million times.

He’s the founder and president of a groundbreaking new organization called, Mettle Health, which provides personalized consultations with patients and caregivers who need help dealing with the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.4	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	Navigating the health care system can be tricky, emotional, frustrating, and overwhelming.
0:21.9	And that's why on this episode, we're very glad to welcome Dr. B.J. Miller back to the podcast. Dr. Miller is a long-time
0:28.1	hospice and palliative medicine physician, an educator whose TED Talk on what matters most at the
0:34.1	end of life has been viewed more than 11 million times.
0:41.5	He's the founder and president of a groundbreaking new organization called Metal Health, which provides personalized consultations with patients and caregivers
0:46.9	who need help dealing with the practical, emotional, and existential issues that come
0:52.8	with serious illness and disability.
0:55.1	Dr. Miller, thank you so much for joining us again.
0:58.2	Hi, guys. Thank you for having me. It's nice to be back.
1:01.3	Tell us more about metal health, where the name comes from, and why there's really a need for
1:07.6	it right now. Well, mental health is very simply as a place you come to get extra support.
1:14.9	It's a place online where you can,
1:18.1	you don't need a doctor's referral.
1:19.8	You can just come right to us and schedule time.
1:23.5	And we can talk through all sorts of things ranging from how to approach treatment decisions,
1:30.0	how to communicate with your family around illness, how to communicate with your doctor,
1:34.1	how to get what you need from the health care system, what other resources you might need,
1:38.8	all sorts of things that go into managing life with serious illness.
1:43.4	We talk about grief, we do advanced care directives,
1:48.0	family caregivers are welcome as much as patients. We all know that illness doesn't happen to people in a
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