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The DO

How I navigated my grandfather’s death as a medical student

By The DO Staff

05.15.22

“His echo results came back, and his ejection fraction is 25%. It looks like the infection has overwhelmed his heart.” As the ICU resident said this, I felt my own heart plummet. My family members looked at me with confusion, trying to understand what this new information meant.