Your connection to End-of-Life Care Educational Resources
Below, you can learn more about Dr. Kevin Dieter and his approach to hospice care through videos, podcasts, journal articles, and samples of coursework he has created. Feel free to contact Dr. Dieter with questions or to schedule a presentation.
Interviews, podcasts & videos
Medical Students are Learning to Be With The Dying
The Heart of Hospice Podcast hosted by Helen Bauer, BSN RN CHPN
Walking alongside someone with serious illness takes compassion, skill, and a willingness to learn. Dr. Kevin Dieter is teaching medical students how to be with the dying. When Kevin’s patient “Mary” asked him to help her die, he had no idea how to support her. Mary taught him how to shepherd a patient and family at the end of life, teaching him a lesson that changed his career. Kevin has gone on to work in hospice care and to write curriculum programs for medical students. Here are the three Pillars of Care that Dr. Dieter teaches: 1. The dying are our teachers. We learn from each of them. 2. We are the medicine. Medications provide relief and mitigation of symptoms, but showing up is powerful. 3. Dying is primarily a spiritual process - it impacts how someone dies and how long it takes for them to die.
The Walk Home: Observations of a Hospice Physician, Kevin Dieter, MD
Dr. Kevin Dieter MD, FAAHPM, HMDC is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at NEOMED. After retiring from 35 years of full time clinical practice in 2023, he continues to work and teach part time as an Associate Medical Director of the Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. He is active nationally in the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and is the 2019 recipient of the AAHPM Josephine B. Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician award.
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Dr. Dieter is featured in an informative article in Hospice News which examines issues facing End-of-Life care. Read the article here.
Toward A Better Death: A conversation with Kevin Dieter, M.D.
On the podcast Lessons My Patients Taught Me with Elliot B. Davidson, M.D., Hospice and Palliative Care Expert and Family Physician Dr. Kevin Dieter shares his approach to being with the dying. He explains why this is a journey of spiritual discovery and that each family and each patient find their own path, often made easier with the guidance and wisdom of experience.
Dr. Kevin Dieter on the End-of-Life University Podcast
On this podcast, Dr. Dieter talks about the virtual learning module he created called "Being with Dying." He created the course for medical and pharmacy students to teach them what they need to know to be at the bedside of a dying patient. He discusses the course he offers, including training healthcare providers.
Dr. Kevin Dieter speaks about his journey into hospice medicine.
In 2019, Dr. Dieter had the opportunity to share his journey with colleagues at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) when he received the Josepfina B. Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award.
What is a Good Death?
A four-part podcast series from the Sacred Art of Living Center with Dr. Kevin Dieter
It is almost cliche to hear that we are a death-denying society. Carl Jung observed that, ‘America is the world’s first culture that believes death is an option… such is our unqualified belief in the power of science.’ This podcast series gets beneath this illusion through a series of inspiring and challenging conversations with Dr. Kevin Dieter, and acclaimed hospice physician, and Richard Groves, founder of the Sacred Art of Living Center in Bend Oregon.
Part 1: Facing Our Fears
Part 2: The Dying Are Our Teachers
Part 3: Walking Each Other Home
Part 4: Dying is Ultimately a Spiritual Experience
Dr. Dieter discusses questions and misconceptions about hospice.
In this Q&A with Hospice of the Western Reserve, Dr. Dieter answers questions from the community about hospice and palliative care.
We Are the Medicine.
In this Tedx talk, Dr. Kevin Dieter shares he has learned from his patients and how we can cultivate a new approach to the dying process.
Witnessing End-of-Life Experiences
In this news segment, Dr. Dieter and other hospice caregivers discuss what its like to witness the end-of-life experiences of patients.
