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The past decade has seen a tremendous surge of interest in improved pain management, end-of-life care, and physician-assisted suicide. A panel talks about hospice care and other programs that treat death as an important, though often difficult, part of human life.
Dr. Russell Portenoy, chairman of the department of pain medicine and palliative care at Beth Israel Medical Center
Dr. Matthew Kestenbaum, medical director at Washington Home and Hospice
Dr. Joanne Lynn, senior scientist at the RAND Corporation
Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe joins Diane to discuss African literature and how it's been influenced by Western culture. In his new book he reflects on how European colonization affected his own childhood and education, and on how imperialism's traces are still felt throughout the African continent.
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist
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