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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a nurse.  There is a lack of understanding of what recovery from major surgery can look like for the elderly.  It's complicated by the fact that it can be unpredictable who will do well and who will have complications.

I'm not sure that lack of understanding can be remedied because people prefer optimistic innocence.  [/quote]

In my experience dealing with elderly parent with many co-morbidities, the doctors are extremely indirect.  I would much prefer it if they were honest about my parent's situation.  Instead we made it all the way to a final pre-op with the surgeon, who took a look at my parent and canceled surgery.

For those who think that healthcare is not being rationed, the surgeon's reasoning was that it would be a waste of resources to take a bet on my parent, instead of providing this surgery to a person who is younger, in better shape and could make a full recovery.[/quote]

The surgeon thought your parent would die on the table or be worse off for having had the surgery.  That isn’t rationing, it’s ethics.[/quote]

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