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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by wdr1 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:13AM (#29634142)
I mean isn't that basically what happened with Steve Jobs?

When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he decided to forgo the aggressive medical treatment advised by doctors, opting instead of acupuncture & fruit juices.

Re:My career of treating patients has ended by gataca on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:22AM (#29634212)
He got very lucky with the type of pancreatic cancer he had, it was detected so early that surgery would likely have been curative. So sad that it ended the way it did.
Re:My career of treating patients has ended by buildsjets on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:26AM (#29634232)
Exocrine Pancreatic cancer has negligible 5-year survival rates with the most radical and invasive modern treatments.

Acupuncture and fruit juices are just as effective, with a much lower incidence of side effects. I’d choose that treatment option as well. There’s nothing unethical about palliative care.

Re:My career of treating patients has ended by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:32AM (#29634280)
Jobs did not have the aggressive, highly lethal form of pancreatic cancer you often hear about in the news.

He had a much rarer form of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and has much better survival rates.

Re:My career of treating patients has ended by hashmymustache on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:31AM (#29634273)
Except Steve Jobs famously died of neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer.
Re:My career of treating patients has ended by hermes8329 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @02:38AM (#29634963)
Accupuncture and juice is pallatiative care but is accepted stupidly as treatment

Pallatiative care is making the choice to travel to end of the line. I am currently going through making that decision. If i do, bring on the tasty juices and accupuncture to make me feel relieved at the time. But i am not delusional, it's not treatment. It is not going to fix anything or even stall it

Re:My career of treating patients has ended by jfengel on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:15PM (#29642197)
I'm sorry to hear about that. My condolences, and I hope that the juice is delicious.