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To: Chickensoup
Reads like a variation on the “if I had a million dollars, I'd give it to you.”

The easy part is telling a patient to their face”go home and die”

Hopefully we can get Dr Lundberg to volunteer to perform that “heart to heart “ for all of our patients.

Whenever you restrict any treatment and take away the choice of the patient then you become the slur most physicians despise the most, playing God

12 posted on 09/01/2009 3:38:11 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Cyman

Whenever you restrict any treatment and take away the choice of the patient then you become the slur most physicians despise the most, playing God

In medicine people are told everyday that they have little or no chance to live. Severe burn victims are kept comfortable and not treated because there is little/no chance of keepng them alive. They have no choice to try. Heart patients are told that heart surgery is too risky and that they should put their affairs in order. Liver cancer patients are told that they will not get transplants. It is.


14 posted on 09/01/2009 3:43:10 PM PDT by Chickensoup (minestra di pollo)
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