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Stories from a hospice: The people I carry with me

Kathryn Mannix is a pioneering palliative care doctor and for three decades she accompanied the dying. In deciding to tell their stories she has become a ground-breaking author

Kathryn Mannix is a pioneer in palliative care in the UK: forging a path in a medical field that didn鈥檛 exist when she qualified as a doctor in the 1980s. For decades, Kathryn has helped patients live their best lives right to the end, by treating the symptoms of life limiting illnesses. She kept diaries throughout her career, often of the people and cases that particularly affected her. And many years later, she shared those stories in the ground-breaking book, With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial.

Presenter: India Rakusen
Producer: Helen Fitzhenry

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(Photo: Kathryn Mannix leaning against a mossy stone wall, smiling. Credit: Craig Fordham)

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Thu 11 Jan 2024 03:06GMT

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