it's definitely consistent across the anglosphere in my experience. indeed, one of the non- American sensitivities, given other nation's relatively socialise

it's definitely consistent across the anglosphere in my experience. indeed, one of the non- American sensitivities, given other nation's relatively socialised medicines, is the application of comparatively redundant/ inefficient/pointless treatments on individuals nearing their end of life, because a lot of medical treatments assume the patient actually has prospects of recovery or the ability to gain utility from the outcome of a treatment. for instance, should you provide socialised elective (or otherwise) surgery to a 98 year old with dementia. what about physio for their "recovery period"? you can get a lot of pressure for treatments to "do something" (both from family members and from cost-recovery incentives... course in for profit systems those problems don't go away, and this is not addressing the issues with medicine that would genuinely require family intervention)