It's more than a little dodgy to describe behavior that imposes on someone else's time and resources purportedly to help others as "altruistic." I came here to

It's more than a little dodgy to describe behavior that imposes on someone else's time and resources purportedly to help others as "altruistic." I came here to say the same thing. What does imposing undesired and excruciatingly painful medical procedures on a terminal cancer patient have to do with altruism??? I'd say it verges on evil! The doctor put his own ego above the patient's interests. This is arrogance, not altruism.