Lizard23
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I was raised Catholic (although I am now an atheist) but I can see that adding more complexity and don't envy your current position. In fact I feel for you and your situation.
That being said, one could argue that if the focus on health care was more about quality of life vs keeping one alive, it would take some of those decisions off of your plate.
I work for a med tech company so this line of thinking hurts my bottom line but that doesn't make me feel any less strongly about it.
On a micro scale, these types of decisions will always be tough and, in general, people just want all that can be done to be done (especially since often times insurance is covering these things, but that is another can of worms). For this exact reason, the decisions need to be made on a macro scale.
This is usually where people start freaking out about “death panels” and such, but if one thinks there isnt already an economic component factored into courses of treatment based on extensive analysis that often times is based on large scale clinical data with mortality benefit as a key endpoint one would be mistaken.
That being said, one could argue that if the focus on health care was more about quality of life vs keeping one alive, it would take some of those decisions off of your plate.
I work for a med tech company so this line of thinking hurts my bottom line but that doesn't make me feel any less strongly about it.
On a micro scale, these types of decisions will always be tough and, in general, people just want all that can be done to be done (especially since often times insurance is covering these things, but that is another can of worms). For this exact reason, the decisions need to be made on a macro scale.
This is usually where people start freaking out about “death panels” and such, but if one thinks there isnt already an economic component factored into courses of treatment based on extensive analysis that often times is based on large scale clinical data with mortality benefit as a key endpoint one would be mistaken.
