ATLANTA - Doctors are reporting a disturbing rise in the number of cancer patients getting chemo and other aggressive but futile treatment in the last days of their lives.
Critics of the practice say doctors should be concentrating instead on helping these patients die with dignity and in comfort, perhaps in a hospice.
Cancer doctors don't know when to give up
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So, the hospice folks would rather just get to do their thing before the cancer docs finish doing theirs.
The exiters would rather use MORPHINE instead of CANCER DRUGS. We know the morphine kills every day, every hour but if new cancer drugs hold promise, they hospice ilk should mind their own beeswax.
>> ATLANTA - Doctors are reporting a disturbing rise in the number of cancer patients getting chemo and other aggressive but futile treatment in the last days of their lives.
The "disturbing rise" is from 10% to 12% of cancer patients. That is merely one more patient out of fifty. This is a statistical molehill, not a story. If you look from the other side, here is the story: the number of cancer patients who did not get this "futile" treatment dropped from 45 out of 50 to 44 out of 50. Pretty dramatic, eh? Furthermore, the alleged "futility" of the chemo was not known to the doctors but discovered only by looking at death records later. Pure hindsight.
The writer's opinion that this is "disturbing" in the very first paragraph announces that he is preaching, not reporting. And, of course, his sermon follows the Death Cult party line. This is -- we see every day -- the rule at Associated Press, so we cannot expect any better from them and their ilk. Still, it's a shame that none of them has the integrity to be a journalist.
You cannot hope to bribe or twist
Thank God! The British journalist;
But when you see what they will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to.