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How doctors are taught to deal with death

  • Written by Eleanor Flynn, Associate Professor in Medical Education, University of Melbourne
imageDoctors have to deal with death every day. It's not easy to come to terms with it. from www.shutterstock.com.au

As a society we’re pretty removed from death. We don’t really talk about it. Yet when medical students start their training, it suddenly becomes something they’re intimately acquainted with. So how are young doctors...

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