Doctor M. R. Rajagopal, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is visiting Pittsburgh with his film Hippocratic: 18 Experiments in Gently Shaking the World.  Click here to watch the trailer.

Described by the New York Times as ‘the father of palliative care in India’, Dr. Raj is a small man with a big dream: a pain-free India.

His mission is to bring ethical practice to modern medicine through whole person care and universal access to morphine – the essential, but heavily restricted, narcotic pain medicine.

Now, this spiritual leader of ethical medicine shares the story of his life’s work, reflecting on effecting change in a country of 1.2 billion people – where corruption is rife, bureaucracy is suffocating and the unregulated ‘medical industry’ is driving millions of vulnerable families into financial ruin every year.

Cosponsored by the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the Department of Religious Studies