By EVAN REID We reconcile medications at discharge because we decided, correctly, that the handoff out of a hospital is a clinical event with its own failure modes. Then a patient dies, and the same hospital that would not let them leave with an unreconciled med list hands the family a folder and a phone number for the funeral home. Grief is separate, and the system is at least gesturing at that. What follows the folder is work. Months of it, procedural, deadline-bearing, and owned by nobody on the care team. I run a consumer estate-settlement publisher, so I see the searches fam...