Dr. Robert Frank, associate dean of academic and student programs in the School of Medicine, is quoted in a front-page story about the dilemma facing persons with terminal illness and their families. He pointed out that some doctors are reluctant to tell patients and families that death is imminent and create false hopes that last-ditch treatments could work. "Most doctors think, 'I didn't come to medical school to give up,'" he explains. "They came to medical school to sew up holes in kids' hearts so they can go back to jumping rope, or some variation of that scenario." Frank introduced hospice and end-of-life care to the medical school's curriculum.