About Istiaq Mian, MD
Hello and welcome to my page! I’m Istiaq Mian, MD, a hospitalist who writes about human behavior through memoir and narrative medicine essays.
In 2012, I sat in a medical school classroom in Madison, Wisconsin. The forensic pathologist who was lecturing told us about an elderly woman who had died. She had been dead for months and he asked the class, “Why wasn’t her death reported earlier? ” Someone had guessed that perhaps she lived in a remote area.