Just a reminder. The New
Medicine: Returning the Human Touch to High-Tech Care, a PBS two hour documentary hosted by Dana Reeve, will air on
Wednesday, March 29 at 9:00 ET. Filmed three months before her death, Dana was said to be upbeat and optimistic about
the future."She was very hopeful at that point that she would survive," director Muffie Meyer recalled. "She was buying Christmas presents for her son that day, and really had a tremendous amount of energy. She seemed wonderful, and very, very grounded and strong."
The profound loss of Dana Reeve to lung cancer is still such a shock for many of us. The central theme of the documentary looks at how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient and not merely the symptoms of a disease. Dana Reeve embraced the world, and this documentary almost feels like a gift she left for us - to inspire us - and to enlighten us to healing perspectives she felt were important in facing the challenges and obstacles of disease.
