Why Are Doctors Afraid of The Word “Death”?

If death is seen as the last enemy of medicine, then doctors will lose every time. The human mortality rate continues to hold steady at 100 percent and shows no signs of changing. Our next medical innovation — the acceptance of our mortality — will not come as a technical solution to a scientific problem. It will have to be a more human approach to a deep mystery of every life — the mystery of being mortal.

This is an excerpt from a fine article in The Washington Post: Why Are Doctors Afraid of The Word "Death" that was sent to us by Karen Gunderscheimer of Williamstown, Massachusetts.