My father was only 73 at the time and very active when a doctor decided a procedure was unnecessary. When questioned as to why he refused to perform it he replied, "Well, if he was younger I'd do it right away."
He got another doctor. Who was that doctor to say that my dad was finished living already?
My mother-in-law’s doctor found a spot on her lung when she was 88. He told her that they would just watch it. She trusted him completely because he was the doctor that all the other doctors went to. Well, he watched it, right up until she died of lung cancer. In the last few years, he also refused to approve laser surgery for a hematoma that developed on her leg from an accident. It would have been so simple. Everytime she bumped it on anything, it bled so badly that it looked like a crime scene.