Dying is not an emergency
BY Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABFM, ABIHM, Director, Medical Student Education Program, WD and Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor of Integrative Medicine, Professor, Family Medicine University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor When your heart stops or you are in a crash, be grateful for the skilled attention of paramedics, firemen, emergency room staff, trauma surgeons, and intensive care doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists. However, oftentimes, death and dying come more slowly. The Good Death: The New...