Eldridge Rieves: interior the construction of a infectious ailment pandemic wherein scientific care exchange into strained previous its limits, it would make experience to apply accessible components first on those maximum possibly to get better and stay for some years particularly than those much less waiting to get better with constrained remaining years anyhow. no longer the main friendly concepts-set, however the main logical.
Renay Billiar: I have ambivalent feelings about health care for the old. Don't get me wrong....I AM old and want to live as long as possible. On the other hand, I also know that the general life expectancy of humans on this planet has, since time began, been quite short.Sometimes, I think .....like the spoiled rich young people that we see around us today who think a lot of themselves and their own value to the country.....we tend to start thinking that we are entitled ....for some reason....to live lots longer than any other gener! ation of human beings ever has. Not saying that is good or bad....just saying that is how most old people feel. Certainly, no one wants to die....but am not sure that there is a good reason for us to feel entitled to live longer than human beings EVER have....since we first started living on the planet.As for the very young, I just cannot say about them. In every other animal category....very young who are not hale & hearty just die very soon. Now, doctors and hospitals spend millions of dollars keeping a sick baby alive. I don't know about this....and see both sides of the thing. What I do know is that....like the spoiled young people....everyone expects that we will thrive into long, long, long old age.... regardless of whether or not we can afford to pay out-of-pocket ourselves.I think that is not a problem when a country is flush with wealth....has high employment....has plenty of reserves in the coffers. But, when a country is in an economic depre! ssion.....I think some decisions have to be made in all our he! arts which are more reality-based than we are accustomed to.It has nothing to do with respect for the old by the young....it has nothing to do with what's "fair".....it is arithmetic....Show more
Raye Tredennick: In my experience, I believe that some doctors do not want to spend a lot of time caring for elderly people who have chronic diseases. While I can understand where they are coming from (e.g., something else will take them out, burden of health cost on society, etc.), I do believe they should tell you the truth before you make a decision to withhold treatment. Not say a person won't be the same but tell me if the person's dying is any day. I want good bedside manners with compassion. I can handle the truth.I believe, and rightly so, that you should do everything you can to save the younger person as they have a full life ahead of them and would probably fare better with the treatment given....Show more
Rose Krouse: When my mother was in her 80s, she g! ot this same line from several doctors: "Well, what do you expect at your age?"I have made a solemn promise to SLUG the first doctor who hands me that line. @#$%$ I expect the best health this doctor can offer, and if he can't offer any, I want a second opinion!(My mother was too refined to say this, but she surely did think it.)...Show more
Adrian Sherlin: They don't care if you are over 70 unless you have lots of money. On the other hand, why would they cut the leg off of an 94 year old person when they know they are dieing anyway and put them through that pain?
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