Extreme MeasuresBy: Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter M. D. For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical careto become an ICU physicianand imagined herself swooping in