Louis Theroux's LA Stories: Edge of Life

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Louis Theroux's LA Stories: Episode 2: Edge of Life

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Louis Theroux's LA Stories

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Louis Theroux meets patients battling for their lives in LA's most famous hospital.

Documentary. Louis Theroux explores the American way of death as he looks at end of life care in LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.

Louis visits LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in West Hollywood, where he meets patients battling for their lives against serious illnesses. 

America spends a huge amount on health care and a hefty proportion goes on end of life care, with a wide and expensive array of treatments on offer to those with insurance or who qualify for government funded programmes. Louis talks to patients and their families as they face some of the toughest decisions imaginable - whether to accept death and die in relative comfort, or to gamble on further, possibly painful treatment in the hope that it will cure them or prolong their life. He also talks to the doctors whose job it is to guide people through this traumatic process. 

Over several months Louis explores the American way of death, which often involves never giving up and keeping faith right to the end.

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