My Grandparents’ Agonizing Deaths Taught Me to Become a Better Doctor

By Lauren Klingman

Have you ever seen somebody die?

In my first year of medical school, this subject has yet to be broached in a meaningful way. As medical students, we are preparing to work in a field of literal life and death, but how do you handle death if you’ve never seen it? Life is easier for us, we have all seen…