Doctors don't see enough peaceful deaths

doi:10.1136/bmj.318.7178.264b

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Fiona Haas, Staff nurse

St Richard's Hospital, Chichester PO19 4SE

EDITOR—Goodall suggests that doctors are more afraid of death than is the rest of the population.1 If she is right we must ask why this is so and question whether it might have a detrimental effect on the care given to very ill patients.

Recently I questioned eight junior hospital doctors about …