By: camilletixier
On the other hand, not giving treatment to that 95-year-old seems like a really shitty thing to do.
View ArticleBy: PalMD
Ah ha! It’s a matter of perception. “Not giving treatment” is very different than “giving appropriate treatment”.
View ArticleBy: lumbercartel
Why does “not giving that patient treatment X” sound so much like “not giving your 1963 Studebaker a new cylinder head?” The patient is not (or certainly shouldn’t be) a passive object of this care....
View ArticleBy: camilletixier
I suppose. Still feels wrong to just let someone die without trying everything beforehand.
View ArticleBy: Karl Withakay
John, a few thoughts to consider: Grampa isn’t usually paying for it by himself. Whether it’s Medicare or private insurance, other people are paying for the bulk of it. When it’s Medicare, it is...
View ArticleBy: Karl Withakay
John, a few thoughts to consider: Grampa isn’t usually paying for it by himself. Whether it’s Medicare or private insurance, other people are paying for the bulk of it. When it’s Medicare, it is...
View ArticleBy: lumbercartel
Still feels wrong to just let someone die without trying everything beforehand. Even when that “something” closely resembles torture? Even when you could, no serious doubt about it, save hundreds of...
View ArticleBy: camilletixier
I don’t think that treating this hypothetical patient needs to be at the exclusion of other patients.
View ArticleBy: lumbercartel
I don’t think that treating this hypothetical patient needs to be at the exclusion of other patients. Would that this were so, but there is never enough money for prenatal, perinatal, and early...
View ArticleBy: DLC
Cases like this, the Doctors don’t get to make the call, for a reason. If you start rationing care based on “how much longer is this poor old man going to live” what’s to stop you from descending from...
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