Alexander Filipski, DO, offers a unique perspective on patients in the terminal phase of their illness.  

How do doctors comfort the patients who have recently learned that they only have months to live?  How do doctors deliver the news, and prepare them and their families for a peaceful transition?

Dr. Filipski is active in BALANCE, a program he helps run where the next generation of medical students are trained to have the empathy and emotions necessary to offer a high level of end-of-life care.  

Doctors are people too, and doctors often go through the emotions of grieving and loss when a patient they are close to is facing death.

Dr. Filipski practices family medicine at St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, NY. 

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