Every second counts, especially when you are a physician standing in the way of death, so what should you do? Dr. Sergio Torres, a UCSF hospitalist caring for many patients and their loved ones, says that sometimes the minutes are better spent not just doing something, but being there. Join Dr. Torres and host Dr. Dawn Gross in this episode of Dying to Talk: UCSF Heart Sound as they discuss the mentors and experiences that have helped develop practices in their end-of-life care to better support families seeing their loved ones go as they wish. Dying to Talk: UCSF Heart sounds is sponsored by the UCSF Health and Wellbeing Grant. Each episode creates a space for doctors to unpack a rarely discussed experience, the first patient death. Learn more at dyingtotalk.com. Music created and generously provided by Craig Minowa of Cloud Cult.

Grief is an injury. While it might not be as apparent as a broken arm, grief requires the same care, attention, and treatment. As a pediatric neurologist caring for the minds of both kids and adults, Dr. Laura Deering is no stranger to the waves of grief - foreboding tides that are often unspoken after leaving the patient room. In this episode of Dying to Talk: UCSF Heart Sounds, Dr. Deering and host Dr. Dawn Gross discuss the nuances of supporting families losing their loved ones, creating space for others navigating grief, and sparking conversations around grief with other doctors. Dying to Talk: UCSF Heart sounds is sponsored by the UCSF Health and Wellbeing Grant. Each episode creates a space for doctors to reflect on a rarely discussed experience, the first patient death. Learn more at dyingtotalk.com. Music created and generously provided by Craig Minowa of Cloud Cult.

Dying To Talk is proud to present a special series for the University of California at San Francisco : UCSF Heart Sounds. The term "Heart Sounds" is medical jargon referring to the different types of "lub dub" sounds the heart makes when listening through a stethoscope. It also means the sounds our souls make when listening deeply with the heart. Created and hosted by hospice and palliative medicine specialist, Dawn Gross, MD, PhD, each episode features a physician at different stages of their career talking about the universally experienced moment in medical training: the first patient death as a doctor. Though every physician is as unique as the story they share, reflecting a diversity of specialty, spiritual, racial and gender identities, every conversation ultimately illuminates our shared humanity, such that Dying To Talk: UCSF Heart Sounds becomes the stethoscope for listening to the heart of what matters most. Want to share your own story? Visit Dying To Talk to learn how you can join a "Huggle."