Health-care workers need to have frank conversations when death is imminent.

CBC Radio's Dr. Brian Goldman takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals

and doctors' offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies on White Coat, Black Art on CBC Radio We need to talk more about death, says U.K. palliative author and physician Dr. Kathryn Mannix She says health-care workers have to get comfortable with having frank conversations with patients when death is imminent, so they can be prepared.