Dr. Jessica Zitter is a national advocate for transforming the way people die in America. She is Harvard and UCSF-trained to practice the unusual combination of Critical and Palliative Care medicine. She works as an Attending Physician at a public hospital in Oakland, California.

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Jessica is also the author of the book, Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, and her work is featured in the Academy and Emmy-nominated short documentary “Extremis,” which is available on Netflix.

In this episode, we talk with Jessica about how we avoid the conversation about death by hiding behind differences such as religion, culture, and race. She talks about why it is important to speak about death far in advance of being anywhere near it, about the conflict doctors have against the need and desire to keep people alive versus maintaining quality of life up to the end, and she digs deeper into the extremely difficult decision-making processes people have to go through near the end (especially when conversations about death didn’t happen in advance).

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