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To: decimon
Stepping away from costs for a minute, more and more I have a problem with medical advances. Sure they do a lot of good things, and I would not want to slow down progress. But I have to say that they also introduce problems and I think society may want to revisit some assumptions and values.

We have a local case where a man killed his teenage daughter, then shot his wife in the face three tiems, then killed himself (financial trouble). The wife has been in critical care for a while and I don't know if she'll make it. If she survives, what will she wake up to? No husband, no daughter -- no face. And probably half a million in debt.

Advanced medical care saved her life. I won't say it's bad. I won't say it's good. I'll just say that I'm not very comfortable with where we are right now.

15 posted on 02/09/2010 6:39:12 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I was born in America, but now I live in Declinistan.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Good points. Losing someone close has never been easy but there has been some comfort in knowing you’ve done what can be done. Now you have to make the hardest choices at the worst times.


21 posted on 02/09/2010 7:02:23 AM PST by decimon
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