This Doctor Wants to Humanize Death, Op Docs

If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better. Its not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works to ensure that terminally ill children receive quality endoflife care. Palliative care is sometimes misunderstood to shorten life expectancy, but its a method that increases quality of life, improves symptom burden and decreases medical costs. We follow Dr. Tremonti in John Beder s Dying in Your Mother s Arms as she works to make death less medical and more human. In the process she asks a critical question: When a child is terminally ill, how can we make the end of life a better one Read more: More from The New York Times Video: Subscribe: Watch all of our videos here: Facebook: Twitter: OpDocs is a forum for short, opinionated documentari