Dr. Jessica Zitter MD Oakland, CA with 21+ years experience
Gender: Female Years In Practice: 21+ Phone Number:(510) 437-4800
Specialty
Internal Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Pulmonology
Contact
Highland Hospital
1411 E. 31st Street
Oakland, CA 94602 Phone:(510) 437-4800
Insurances
First Health PPO GHI PPO Great West PPO HIP of New York - Select PPO Humana ChoiceCare Network PPO Multiplan PPO
QualCare HMO QualCare PPO United Healthcare - Direct Choice Plus POS United Healthcare - Direct Options PPO WEA Trust POS-SE WEA Trust Preferred Provider Plan - Trust Pref
Affiliated Hospitals
UCSF Medical Center San Francisco, CA
Dr. Jessica Zitter's Videos
Simulation #247 Dr. Jessica Zitter - Humanizing Healthcare
Dr. Jessica Zitter is a ICU & Palliative care physician at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. She is the Author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, and featured in the Oscar nominated short documentary called Extremis (Netflix).
Her mission is to humanize the experience of dying in our medical system, both by changing the system itself, changing the people within the system, and empowering patients to hold on to their own humanity along the way.
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You Cannot Win Against Death, With Jessica Zitter M.D.
Dr. Jessica Zitter is a national advocate for transforming the way people die in America. She is Harvard and UCSF-trained to practice the unusual combination of Critical and Palliative Care medicine. She works as an Attending Physician at a public hospital in Oakland, California.
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Jessica is also the author of the book, Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, and her work is featured in the Academy and Emmy-nominated short documentary “Extremis,” which is available on Netflix.
In this episode, we talk with Jessica about how we avoid the conversation about death by hiding behind differences such as religion, culture, and race. She talks about why it is important to speak about death far in advance of being anywhere near it, about the conflict doctors have against the need and desire to keep people alive versus maintaining quality of life up to the end, and she digs deeper into the extremely difficult decision-making processes people have to go through near the end (especially when conversations about death didn’t happen in advance).