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If I’m terminal and my doctor and I want to try the treatment, who are the feds to tell me no? Screw ‘em
by newZWhoDis 3y ago
If I’m terminal and my doctor and I want to try the treatment, who are the feds to tell me no?
Screw ‘em
- joshuamorton 3y agoWe are all, in some sense, terminal. At what number of months or years left to live does your terminality become sufficient to let you try whatever?
- nine_k 3y agoIt took about 40 years to find efficient ways to treat AIDS. It took about one year to find efficient ways to treat COVID-19. So, if you have a condition with a few years of life expectancy remaining, maybe it's worth it to wait for some promising scientific results to turn into an approved medicine that will cure you. If you have a few decades (e.g. the normal life expectancy), even more so. If you doctors give you a few months though, maybe the "try anything" approach is a better gamble.