The most important conversation of your life (or death): Talking about resuscitation.
3 min readDec 28, 2020
Everyone’s heart stops. Yet it seems like so few are prepared for it. Or rather, so few have prepared their loved ones for it. When I first started working as a doctor in the intensive care unit (ICU), it struck me as odd that many of my 70, 80, and 90-year-old patients had never had the talk with their families about what they wanted the end of…
