He is a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician and is best known for his 2015 TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life".
[2] In film, Miller is the subject of Netflix's Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game[3] by veteran directors Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman and executive produced by physician and film producer, Shoshana R.
Miller has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
Miller formerly served as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Zen Hospice Project, now the Zen Caregiving Project Miller is a triple amputee, a result of climbing on top of a parked train, his watch arcing to the power overhead, and getting electrocuted in 1990 when he was a student at Princeton.
Miller spoke about the experience and how it impacted his view of grief on Anderson Cooper's podcast All There Is.