Ira Byock

Institute for Human Caring

Guest

Palliative care physician and Director of the Institute for Human Caring at Providence Health & Services in Los Angeles; author of The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

Contact: Website

Ira Byock on KCRW

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