# What we can do to die well

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxDesMoines
- Speaker: Timothy Ihrig
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Economics, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/timothy_ihrig_what_we_can_do_to_die_well)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The healthcare industry in America is so focused on pathology, surgery and pharmacology -- on what doctors "do" to patients -- that it often overlooks the values of the human beings it's supposed to care for. Palliative care physician Timothy Ihrig explains the benefits of a different approach, one that fosters a patient's overall quality of life and navigates serious illness from diagnosis to death with dignity and compassion.

## Lectures

1. [What we can do to die well](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/timothy_ihrig_what_we_can_do_to_die_well/0c83a3ff0c8b), 14 min (TED's player)