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BJ Miller is an American physician, author and speaker. He is a practicing palliative care physician at the UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco. He sees patients at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center with terminal or life-altering illnesses and formerly served as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Zen Hospice Project. His expertise includes symptom management for patients with cancer and is on the teaching faculty at UCSF School of Medicine. In film, Miller is the subject of Netflix's Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game by veteran directors Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman and executive produced by Shoshana Ungerleider. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. October 1971
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Famous BJ Miller Quotes

“By facing mortality, it seems to inform how you live. So, the secret is that facing death has a lot to do with living well…”

BJ Miller

On providing palliative care in “Brief But Spectacular: BJ Miller—Palliative Care Specialist” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/194874/bj-miller in PBS

“Leaning into the subject of suffering, leaning into the subject of mortality, was directly therapeutic for me. It wasn’t an intellectual interest or a recreational thought...Getting through my day required me to lean into it, and that’s where I just saw all this beauty that comes from it.”

BJ Miller

On learning to deal with suffering in “How Nearly Losing His Life Made This Author Embrace Death” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bj-miller-beginners-guide-to-the-end-death_l_5d518495e4b0c63bcbeb38e5 in HuffPost (2019 Aug 14)

“Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.”

BJ Miller

On What really matter at the end of life in "On What really matter at the end of life" https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life on TED.COM (2015 March)