<span itemprop="author">Deepa Iyengar, MD, MPH

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Culture and end-of-life caretaking

Amidst beeping monitors, I sat holding my mother’s frail hand in mine with tears rolling down my face and an eerie silence within my soul. I was trying to make sense of the last 24 hours. My mother had migrated to Houston after an early retirement at 5…