While I am in the operating room or doing minor surgery, philosophical matters creep into my brain once in awhile. What if the belief of Buddhists that we are only butterflies in this world thinking that we are human beings is true? Or we are other forms of life believing that we are the superior vertebrate controlling all other forms of life. This belief transcends all the endeavors humans have been doing to preserve the species: curing all diseases. If it is true, we doctors do not have a role. Let a person die because it is his nature to die. Euthanasia should be practiced for a human being should rest from all the toils that he had been doing all his life.
Especially when I am operating on a patient who has cancer, this often gives me doubts to the futility of radical surgery just to extend a patient's life. And most often, because of THE SURGERY, the patient's life is extended all right but it is really a horrible life.
Especially when I am operating on a patient who has cancer, this often gives me doubts to the futility of radical surgery just to extend a patient's life. And most often, because of THE SURGERY, the patient's life is extended all right but it is really a horrible life.
Doc: you ramble sometimes in your blog. The rambling shows how normal an individual you really are. So often professionals live a life of image to others. You are just who you are. :-)
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