Futile Care Theory Metasticizes: Terminal Cancer Patients’ Lives Not Worth Extending » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: “Get out of the lifeboat you expensive terminal cancer patients! Sure, your lives could be extended months, maybe even years,–but it isn’t worth the money! You’re going to die sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner. We need the money for more important and productive patients.”
That, in a harshly stated nutshell, is the recommendation of a committee of doctors in Lancet Oncology who recommend money by rationing therapies that don’t save the lives of cancer patients, but can extend their lives.
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