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It's tempting to hoist the failed system onto complacent rich people + greedy doctors, but IMO the incentives suggest another story: risk-averse docs giving better-but-riskier treatments to patients who are less likely to be irrecoverably harmed by themhttps://twitter.com/StephenPiment/status/1104178389080977409 …
If Uncle Joe endures intolerable pain & ultimately attempts suicide as a result, he's probably less a legal liability to his doctor than if he's prescribed opioids for long-term pain management & suffers an impairment-related accident or any number of correlated health problems
Celebrity Joe has a driver who ensures he gets around safely, a personal trainer who monitors his physical condition on a near-daily basis, an assistant who checks on him every morning. Celebrity Joe has a *lot* of built-in safeties whether or not he always makes good choices
None of this makes it remotely OK that over the course of many soul-rending months of genuine torture Uncle Joe is driven to take his own life, especially in a world where risky-but-effective interventions exist but were withheld from him. I'm explaining, not justifying
i think legal liability is the key term. the transformation of hospitals from social institutions that prioritized patient care to pseudo-corporations is one of the major reasons we're in this big messhttps://twitter.com/LamaAlRajih/status/1097921208119709697?s=20 …
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