A lesson on life's end: How one college class is rethinking doctor training

Thomson Reuters A person’s breath is usually invisible. It’s quiet and automatic, unseen and unheard. It can be so silent that anxious parents holdmirrors next to their newborns’ faces, trying to catch a glimpse of it. But in the days before death, the nature of breath changes. Instead of passing through the body unnoticed, it calls for attention. It becomes noisy, hollowed, labored. Clinicians even have a name for it: the death rattle. It’s not something most people have heard, unless t...