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The doctor's response to the question if he'd recommend her mother to go through cancer treatment reminded me a lot of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313
by endymi0n 10y ago
The doctor's response to the question if he'd recommend her mother to go through cancer treatment reminded me a lot of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 [How Doctors Die]... why is the standard answer still to make people suffer for extending their life just a few months or years?
- masklinn 10y ago> The doctor's response to the question if he'd recommend her mother to go through cancer treatment reminded me a lot of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570 [How Doctors Die]... Of Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal" as well.