How One Doctor Delivers Bad News to End-Stage Cancer Patients

Our American Stories

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Dr. Theodore Schwartz, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine and best-selling author of Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery, shares how he approaches the difficult task of delivering bad news to patients with terminal and late-stage brain cancer.

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