In "How Doctors Die," a powerful essay that went viral in 2011, a physician described how his colleagues meet the end: They go gently. At the end of life, they avoid the mistakes — the intensive, invasive, last-ditch, expensive and ultimately futile procedures that many Americans endure until their very last breath.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The sobering thing doctors do when they die
June 6, 2016 at 6:59 a.m. EDT