"Getting rid" could mean something as simple as making the patient be quiet! or to find another personnel to take care of a patient. Or "GOMER"--Get Out of My Emergency Room. Most of the time a doc will conceal his annoyance, or his own distress. There's even some humor you would not find funny. Thanks to the legal profession, the relationship between docs and patients is distrustful and often antagonistic. If a doctor seems evasive, he doesn't trust you.
Do you hear some people say, "the doc only gave me a month to live, and hear I am! What a quack!" This is very likely a fiction, and the doctor probably gave him a range of expectations based on literature and experience, and gets to be called a quack for his efforts.
Pain meds hasten death. They also get terminally ill patients out of pain.
And sedation can deal with a patient, particularly under adverse circumstances, so you can move on to the next patient.
I agree with everything you said in post #28. I'm forwarding your post to some of the posters on this thread who need to see it too.
BTW, Jack Kevorkian was released from prison in March 2006 claiming to be terminally ill with hepatitis C and expected to live only 6 more months. Here it is, 3 1/2 years later, and he is still around. According to the Wikipedia entry, in February 2009 he lectured at some college:
...There were mixed reactions when Dr. Kevorkian unveiled an American Flag with a swastika where the field of stars normally resides (the Union). He claimed the flag was intended to shock and remind everyone that this is where America is headed if changes are not made.
Talk about execrable! Kevorkian, it was the Nazis who euthanasized 6 million people last century in the Holocaust.