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The Last Lecture: Adventure, Passion, Justice, Joy & Sorrow by Dan Lowenstein, MD, UCSF
UC San Francisco (UCSF)
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- May be out of date. Uploaded 13 years ago, in an area where guidance changes.
For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.
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Clinical medicineMedical training and practice
Dan Lowenstein, MD, shares reflections on life, death, and the practice of medicine in his inspirational last lecture.
ucsf.edu/news/2013/05/105576/beloved-ucsf-professor-dan-lowe… Behind the Scenes: How to prepare for and deliver a Last Lecture bit.ly/5questions_lowenstein The Last Lecture belongs to a venerable academic tradition designed to answer a single question: "If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?" On April 25, Dan Lowenstein -- one of UCSF's most beloved professors -- said a lot. "I must admit that the experience of thinking about what I would share with others if this were my last lecture, or my last day alive, is not foreign to me. I think often about death, not in a morbid way, but because it is so crystal clear that death can come to us at any moment. As Mahatma Gandhi famously said: 'Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.'"Why it's here
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