My first end-of-life conversation

<p>"Looking back on these words at the end of my rotation, I understand what I had felt, and I feel confident naming it: the futility of medicine. We can comfort and treat patients, but there’s nothing more we can do after a certain point. As a bright-eyed medical student who wrote on all her medical school applications that she wanted to save lives, it was and still is difficult for me to understand that."</p> <p>Shereen Jeyakumar is a medical student.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/12/my-first-end-of-life-conversation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">My first end-of-life conversation</a>." (<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/12/my-first-end-of-life-conversation.html">https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/12/my-first-end-of-life-conversation.html</a>)</p>