The Futile Doctor

In my previous post, I pointed out that the patient decides the course of action. What????!!!! Say that again. I can hear you screaming and I can imagine your face in disbelief? “Is this person in her right mind?” You’re probably wondering. No, I’m not out of my mind. You understood me correctly. You are puzzled. I...

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"Is There A Point To Continuing Treatment?"

A colleague approached me this morning and asked vaguely about a friend who has Stage IV lung cancer. He was asking whether the patient should continue receiving chemotherapy when the tumor, upon evaluation, was noted to have metastasized to another location while undergoing treatment. Generally, when a patient is undergoing...

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