Dr. Krakauer is a physician on the Palliative Care Service, actively engaged in supporting an HIV program in Viet Nam. His interests in the humanities, in critical care and in caring for the medically under-served led him into palliative medicine. He also serves on the ethics consultation committee and as attending physician on the Medical Service at MGH, and teaches an advanced course on palliative medicine at Harvard Medical School.

"Every patient has different goals, values and needs. We try to get to know each patient as an individual."