Doctors are compassionate too.

Reading past articles in The New York Times, we stumbled across a very poignant op-ed we'd like to share with you, "The Most-Avoided Conversation in Medicine" written by a physician who, like many other doctors, "has had difficulty dealing with dying patients."

Many of you may believe doctors should be used to it or that the doctors you've encountered don't seem to particularly care.

Fortunately, this is not the case.

In fact, perhaps the problem, as the writer of this article recounts in her op-ed, is that they don't know how to communicate with their dying patients. It could be fear of acknowledging that they tried their best but couldn't help their patient (as was the case in this doctor's story) or it could be the sheer uncertainty as to how to approach the topic of death with their patient. But the writer does have a great suggestion—when doctors go on their rounds, they should ask each other the question: "How good is this patient's end-of-life care?"

Surprisingly, this is not asked.

Perhaps, changing their attitude towards end of life discussions with their patients, the doctors can be one "step closer to being the compassionate doctors [they] have always dreamed of becoming."