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Re:I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could by lotu on Sunday April 07, 2019 @02:36PM (#19598903)
I 100% agree with you. Though everyone should be able to make their own decision and because people are diffrent they will come to diffrent conclusions about what the right path for them is. We should not be trying to impose our path on other people.

That said I'm going to speculate that as a doctor being asked to do long series of futile actions while watching a person die has to be traumatic. So I can understand why many doctors like the idea of palliative care.

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Re:I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could by monodeldiablo on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:46AM (#19603344)
The fact that doctors overwhelmingly choose non-intervention and palliative care for themselves at their end strongly implies that they're not merely traumatized as doctors, but also that they feel it's terrible for the patient.
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