The New Medicine: Returning the Human Touch to High-Tech Care, a PBS two hour documentary hosted by Dana Reeve, will go ahead and air on March 29 at 9:00 ET. Filmed months before her death, the show explores the integration of the best of high-tech medicine with a new attitude that recognizes it is essential to the healing process to treat the patient as a whole person, and not a cog in an assembly line.

According to the documentary, the practice of medicine is on the brink of transformation. As scientific findings reveal that the mind plays a critical role in the body’s capacity to heal, the healthcare community is beginning to integrate this new understanding into effective treatment with the patient. In the preview for the show, Dana Reeves is shown speaking about her belief that hope had been a positive influence on her sense of wellbeing and health, and hope is something both her and Chris, her late husband, depended on to support a positive influence for health.

Hope is a light Dana Reeve shone for each of us, by the grace, dignity and strength in how she lived her life, and in the beauty of her spirit that lives on with us.