I wonder... If oncology divested itself of the fighting cancer myth, and instead helped patients to live as well as possible for the time they had left... recognising that we all die, and that is likely that it is the patient in front of us's time. So many people in their 50s and older seem to assume they're going to live forever... Or a…
I wonder... If oncology divested itself of the fighting cancer myth, and instead helped patients to live as well as possible for the time they had left... recognising that we all die, and that is likely that it is the patient in front of us's time. So many people in their 50s and older seem to assume they're going to live forever... Or at least that is their aim... I'm not sure why try the horrendously expensive cancer drug on a frail old man who is only going to die of something else soon or survive to be demented. If he survives the treatment. Frailty only has one outcome... More frailty. I think of the opportunity cost of those funds... But then I'm someone who'd choose euthenasia in preference to aged care, personally, and I think our animals get better end of life care than we give humans.
I wonder... If oncology divested itself of the fighting cancer myth, and instead helped patients to live as well as possible for the time they had left... recognising that we all die, and that is likely that it is the patient in front of us's time. So many people in their 50s and older seem to assume they're going to live forever... Or at least that is their aim... I'm not sure why try the horrendously expensive cancer drug on a frail old man who is only going to die of something else soon or survive to be demented. If he survives the treatment. Frailty only has one outcome... More frailty. I think of the opportunity cost of those funds... But then I'm someone who'd choose euthenasia in preference to aged care, personally, and I think our animals get better end of life care than we give humans.