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There's also the chance that your life could be saved and your health restored, TBF.
by Animatronio 4y ago
There's also the chance that your life could be saved and your health restored, TBF.
- oneoff786 4y agoSure. But we ought not characterize doctors as “giving up” if they come to a conclusion that it would be better for the patient to pursue a path that shortens expected life span but increases quality life span.
- wpietri 4y agoThat is a conclusion that doctors should certainly express if it is a well-informed and well-considered one. Which is what our neuro-ongologist did at the right time. But we had one doctor give us the "time to let go" speech because he had confused a "grade 4" astrocytoma with a generic "stage 4" cancer. He wasn't my mom's oncologist. He wasn't an ongologist at all. He was an arrogant idiot. And then there were the doctors, also not oncologists and who had not spoken with my mom about her preferences, who did not see the point in properly treating secondary symptoms in somebody who was trying for the extra months her oncologist thought was possible. Those doctors can also go fuck themselves. It is those doctors that I am thinking of when I talk about under-treatment.