Haider Warraich is only 29 years old, but he is no stranger to death. Throughout his training as a doctor, he has witnessed the death of multiple patients. Warraich was trained in the appropriate medical response to death but remained stumped by a multitude of bigger questions about the process, such as what role does religion play in a hospital, and how does social media change how we process death and dying?
Warraich assembled what he learned about end-of-life issues in the contemporary age in his new book 鈥淢odern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life鈥� . Host Frank Stasio speaks with Warraich, a fellow in cardiovascular disease at the .
Warraich reads from his new book on in Raleigh, and on in Durham. He is also speaking on April 20 at the University of North Carolina's , at an event hosted by the Orange County Department on Aging.
