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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Should we do a $2000 test on every person in a coma to rule this out?
Did you watch 60min last night? It was about the absurdity of fighting for every last day of life, even though a person is unconscious, on lifesupport, in pain, and has no meaningful chance of recovery.
I worked with an infectious disease specialist rounding in the hospital among these unconscious very ill patients, who had been in the hospital for weeks or months, for whom death was a certainty. It could be predicted, almost on schedule, what infections and in what order they would arrive. Until finally the patient died. This doctor called it "watering the plants." Because there is a certain absurdity to it.
We can't have it all. We don't have the resources for it.
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