For our first Narrative Medicine Rounds for Fall 2018, we welcome Dr. Haider Warraich, whose book Modern Death deepens and enriches the conversation about death and dying that’s been growing since Dr. Sherwin Nuland’s classic How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter and Atul Guwande’s Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. About the book, which was published last year by St. Martin’s Press, Siddhartha Mukherjee, who is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, and an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, writes: “Haider Warraich’s elegant and poignant book takes us on an unforgettable journey. A caring and thoughtful doctor, he also writes beautifully. He succeeds in humanizing a complex topic and gives us remarkable insights about the changing nature of ‘modern death.’” Dr. Warraich, who graduated from medical school in Pakistan in 2009, did his residency in internal medicine at one of Harvard Medical School's main teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is currently a fellow in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. His medical and Op Ed pieces have appeared in many media outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and the LA Times among others.