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This radio feature examines the ways in which the public hospital system responds to the needs of people from non-European cultures who die in hospital. In particular, we hear from a nurse, Trish Bullen, who tells the story of "Fred", a young Chinese buddhist man for whom she cared while he was dying from liver cancer.

This story was broadcast nationally on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters program on 2001-07-31. It received the 2001 University of Technology Journalism Award for Best Radio Feature. (more…)