Sun, Jul 29, 2018
Mapping The Disability Trap is a New York Times Op-Doc produced and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentary director, Jason Dasilva about an ongoing investigation of the maddening of Catch-22 that prevented him from moving to State of Texas with his son due to his disability caused by 4th stage progressive multiple sclerosis. The Op-Doc also mentioned about challenges faced by New Yorkers with disability in getting around the Big Apple in a wheelchair.
Mon, Aug 10, 2020
If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better. It's not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works to ensure that terminally ill children receive quality end-of-life care. Palliative care is sometimes misunderstood to shorten life expectancy, but it's a method that increases quality of life, improves symptom burden and decreases medical costs. We follow Dr. Tremonti in the short documentary above as she works to make death less medical and more human. In the process she asks a critical question: When a child is terminally ill, how can we make the end of life a better one?