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Michael Daly
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On 25-Nov-2004,
ospam (Larry Cable) wrote:
Would a
doctor in Canada spend thousands or tens of thousands to extend the life of a
terminally ill patient? If they do ration health care, is this one of the
areas that they save? Remember, here they spend hundreds of thousands to give
liver transplants to 70 year old alcoholics.
That depends on the doctor. There are many examples of outrageous amounts
of $$ spent on terminally ill patients and others of patients being talked
into simpler treatments and special care to the end. I don't know of any
stats to back an assumption of either being dominant.
Mike
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