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April 12, 2009 at 12:08 AM #380113April 12, 2009 at 12:42 AM #379495
Ricechex
Participant[quote=DWCAP][quote=patientrenter]
There are alot of problems with health care. One of the biggest is just that we as people will do anything to avoid death. Usually assisted by doctors who have taken oaths and years of training to stop death at all costs.
We need to find a better way of dying. Spending tens to hundreds of thousands for maybe days needs to change.
[/quote]Fear of death is the motivating factor. The existential dilemma. And if someone dies young ( and this is always relative, what is young is dependent on your age), or in a war, tragic accident, etc., then it is always questioned “why?” “it wasn’t fair” “he was too young.” If a person dies at 80, but was a nasty disingenous (sp?) person of all those years, it seems to be accepted. It is still about entitlement….the entitlement to have consume, live long and be owed.
April 12, 2009 at 12:42 AM #379765Ricechex
Participant[quote=DWCAP][quote=patientrenter]
There are alot of problems with health care. One of the biggest is just that we as people will do anything to avoid death. Usually assisted by doctors who have taken oaths and years of training to stop death at all costs.
We need to find a better way of dying. Spending tens to hundreds of thousands for maybe days needs to change.
[/quote]Fear of death is the motivating factor. The existential dilemma. And if someone dies young ( and this is always relative, what is young is dependent on your age), or in a war, tragic accident, etc., then it is always questioned “why?” “it wasn’t fair” “he was too young.” If a person dies at 80, but was a nasty disingenous (sp?) person of all those years, it seems to be accepted. It is still about entitlement….the entitlement to have consume, live long and be owed.
April 12, 2009 at 12:42 AM #379950Ricechex
Participant[quote=DWCAP][quote=patientrenter]
There are alot of problems with health care. One of the biggest is just that we as people will do anything to avoid death. Usually assisted by doctors who have taken oaths and years of training to stop death at all costs.
We need to find a better way of dying. Spending tens to hundreds of thousands for maybe days needs to change.
[/quote]Fear of death is the motivating factor. The existential dilemma. And if someone dies young ( and this is always relative, what is young is dependent on your age), or in a war, tragic accident, etc., then it is always questioned “why?” “it wasn’t fair” “he was too young.” If a person dies at 80, but was a nasty disingenous (sp?) person of all those years, it seems to be accepted. It is still about entitlement….the entitlement to have consume, live long and be owed.
April 12, 2009 at 12:42 AM #379995Ricechex
Participant[quote=DWCAP][quote=patientrenter]
There are alot of problems with health care. One of the biggest is just that we as people will do anything to avoid death. Usually assisted by doctors who have taken oaths and years of training to stop death at all costs.
We need to find a better way of dying. Spending tens to hundreds of thousands for maybe days needs to change.
[/quote]Fear of death is the motivating factor. The existential dilemma. And if someone dies young ( and this is always relative, what is young is dependent on your age), or in a war, tragic accident, etc., then it is always questioned “why?” “it wasn’t fair” “he was too young.” If a person dies at 80, but was a nasty disingenous (sp?) person of all those years, it seems to be accepted. It is still about entitlement….the entitlement to have consume, live long and be owed.
April 12, 2009 at 12:42 AM #380123Ricechex
Participant[quote=DWCAP][quote=patientrenter]
There are alot of problems with health care. One of the biggest is just that we as people will do anything to avoid death. Usually assisted by doctors who have taken oaths and years of training to stop death at all costs.
We need to find a better way of dying. Spending tens to hundreds of thousands for maybe days needs to change.
[/quote]Fear of death is the motivating factor. The existential dilemma. And if someone dies young ( and this is always relative, what is young is dependent on your age), or in a war, tragic accident, etc., then it is always questioned “why?” “it wasn’t fair” “he was too young.” If a person dies at 80, but was a nasty disingenous (sp?) person of all those years, it seems to be accepted. It is still about entitlement….the entitlement to have consume, live long and be owed.
April 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM #379623ucsf_med
ParticipantThere are many very insightful comments in this thread. I particularly like patientrenter’s first reply outlining the various conflicting interests in healthcare.
Physicians aren’t the only ones complicit in the quest to stop death at all costs, the family at the bedside and ever present lawyer-threat are drivers pushing the physician to do just a little more.
The article citing costs spent in the last several months of life is quite telling. However, it is in retrospect as you don’t know it is someone’s last few months of life until they actually die. It’s hard to cut off the last month of spending when you don’t know when the last month of life is.
April 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM #379894ucsf_med
ParticipantThere are many very insightful comments in this thread. I particularly like patientrenter’s first reply outlining the various conflicting interests in healthcare.
Physicians aren’t the only ones complicit in the quest to stop death at all costs, the family at the bedside and ever present lawyer-threat are drivers pushing the physician to do just a little more.
The article citing costs spent in the last several months of life is quite telling. However, it is in retrospect as you don’t know it is someone’s last few months of life until they actually die. It’s hard to cut off the last month of spending when you don’t know when the last month of life is.
April 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM #380079ucsf_med
ParticipantThere are many very insightful comments in this thread. I particularly like patientrenter’s first reply outlining the various conflicting interests in healthcare.
Physicians aren’t the only ones complicit in the quest to stop death at all costs, the family at the bedside and ever present lawyer-threat are drivers pushing the physician to do just a little more.
The article citing costs spent in the last several months of life is quite telling. However, it is in retrospect as you don’t know it is someone’s last few months of life until they actually die. It’s hard to cut off the last month of spending when you don’t know when the last month of life is.
April 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM #380126ucsf_med
ParticipantThere are many very insightful comments in this thread. I particularly like patientrenter’s first reply outlining the various conflicting interests in healthcare.
Physicians aren’t the only ones complicit in the quest to stop death at all costs, the family at the bedside and ever present lawyer-threat are drivers pushing the physician to do just a little more.
The article citing costs spent in the last several months of life is quite telling. However, it is in retrospect as you don’t know it is someone’s last few months of life until they actually die. It’s hard to cut off the last month of spending when you don’t know when the last month of life is.
April 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM #380253ucsf_med
ParticipantThere are many very insightful comments in this thread. I particularly like patientrenter’s first reply outlining the various conflicting interests in healthcare.
Physicians aren’t the only ones complicit in the quest to stop death at all costs, the family at the bedside and ever present lawyer-threat are drivers pushing the physician to do just a little more.
The article citing costs spent in the last several months of life is quite telling. However, it is in retrospect as you don’t know it is someone’s last few months of life until they actually die. It’s hard to cut off the last month of spending when you don’t know when the last month of life is.
April 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM #379692paramount
Participantpatientrenter: My statements are not in conflict because I did not define what those limitations might be.
Medical care could be provided that was not a matter of life or death. I’m sure it happens everyday at any given emergency room.
April 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM #379964paramount
Participantpatientrenter: My statements are not in conflict because I did not define what those limitations might be.
Medical care could be provided that was not a matter of life or death. I’m sure it happens everyday at any given emergency room.
April 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM #380149paramount
Participantpatientrenter: My statements are not in conflict because I did not define what those limitations might be.
Medical care could be provided that was not a matter of life or death. I’m sure it happens everyday at any given emergency room.
April 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM #380196paramount
Participantpatientrenter: My statements are not in conflict because I did not define what those limitations might be.
Medical care could be provided that was not a matter of life or death. I’m sure it happens everyday at any given emergency room.
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