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Brutal take. Squeezing hundreds of thousands of dollars out of patients/insurance for maybe a few extra months is immoral imo
by hallway_monitor 4y ago
Brutal take. Squeezing hundreds of thousands of dollars out of patients/insurance for maybe a few extra months is immoral imo
- wutbrodo 4y agoAnd months that often aren't a great quality of life and are questionably in the patients' interest. It made a huge impression on me as a kid when my greataunt, a physician, decided that she didn't want to be treated for her leukemia diagnosis. She died within a month (I assume it was late-stage). (IIRC, better end-of-life counseling is what the Obamacare "death panels" kerfuffle was in reference to)