We've seen it so many times. A young, handsome man rushed into the emergency room with a gunshot wound. A flurry of white coats racing the clock: CPR, the heart zapper, the order for a scalpel. Stat!

“If you're going to bring Faces of Death into the modern era,” says director Daniel Goldhaber, “on some level, you have to contend with the fact that Faces of Death is everywhere.” In 1978, John Alan ...

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Clinicians who work with people at the end of life say the most common television depictions of death aren't representative of what happens in the... Doctors are pushing Hollywood for more realistic ...