We have fact sheets for many health conditions. Why isn’t there one for ‘What to do on the day your loved one dies’? | Ranjana Srivastava

The best doctors understand something that is easy to lose in the machinery of a hospital: death does not turn a person into an administrative task “If you don’t mind, can we start with the patient who has died?” “But he has died,” I say to the resident, eyeing our long list of the living. Continue reading...