I have yet to meet any doctor that turned to homeopathic medicine when real medicine was indicated. Not one.
I had triple bypass surgery three years ago. My wife and children needed me to be around for a long time yet, and there are no alternative or homeopathic remedies that will open multiple 100% blocked coronary arteries. My health is better today than it has been since I was in my twenties.
And whether to treat cancer depends solely on the odds of beating it. I know of no doctor who would refuse chemo/radiation treatment for a curable cancer.
This article is little more than propaganda for the death panels that are an integral part of ObamaCare.
Exactly!
Pancreatic cancer is often not diagnosed until the late stages and it's not unusual for a person to opt to not do anything. However, many cancers a fully treatable and it would be insane for someone to not take it.
I don’t have a problem with the observation that physicians and nurses often have the view that when they get near the end, they are much more matter-of-fact about what they specifically do and don’t want.
Many of them have (over the course of their careers) been witness to patients who were tortured by the rigid rules of care of the medical profession or by their family’s refusal to let go long after they should have.
It is a fact of life, anyone who has worked long enough in health care sees it, and any thinking person will take precautions to ensure they don’t end up in that spot.
Is that an area we can all improve on? Absolutely 100%.
Is that an area we want the government making decisions for us in? Absolutely 100% NOT.
(And by the way, this physician who makes these blanket statements about homeopathic medicine and such is perhaps living in a cloistered world view in his corner of California. It doesn’t match what I have seen in the real world.)
There were less than five doctors who would work on it in the nation, and probably no more then ten in the world. It was VERY invasive surgery. A gun shot wound to the head would be less invasive (literally).
Many doctors told me that “He shouldn't have the surgery”. A few tried the financial route, which might have worked with mom, but only really angered Dad and myself.
Dad is not at all the same as before. But he is almost 90% there. Honestly, it is a miracle in many ways, and his surgeon agrees.
Why did Dad do it? Well, we Nebraskan Germans don't like being told just lay down and die. He wanted to live to see more grand kids. And he has. But with the coming regulations, he would be denied surgery because it is to expensive (even though he had private insurance), and because he is to old. This article is just one more attempt to teach the public that they have a duty to lay down and die.