The Conversation Project

Justin Sanders, MD, MSc, is a palliative care physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is an associate faculty with the Ariadne Labs Serious Illness Care Program. Sanders has observed…

Sure, the baby isn’t due for a few months. But you’ve already mapped out the best route to the hospital. And the rush hour route. And the nobody-knows-this-route route… You’ve picked a paint color and…

How might a clinician start learning what matters most to their patients about end-of-life care? One way is to talk about choosing a health care proxy. In this interview, Kate Lally, MD, FACP, Chief of…

Isabel Merrin was an intern for The Conversation Project (TCP) for three years while she was a Tufts University student. How did this Millennial turn her passion for promoting open end-of-life conversations into a thought-provoking…

I couldn’t have predicted that learning what matters most to patients at the end of life would become so personally important to me this year. But I’m the kind of person who believes that everything…

There’s nothing in life that can’t be improved by adding pizza, and this includes conversations about death. These two concepts may seem incompatible, but breaking bread provides a safe place to share concerns and ask…