How Doctors Die (2011)
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How Doctors Die (2011)
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#2HN Commentary from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570
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#3This has been posted before, as indicated by ben1040's comment, but it's worth reading again.
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#4we won't be able to repair these various cancers until we can do whole cell emulation on the offending cell and contrast/compare it to a healthy equivalent.
We need to understand the mechanics of cells down to the molecular level. Then maybe we can think of a fix. At this stage in society, we know just enough about cancers to do more harm than good in the remaining years of life for the worst forms of cancer.
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#5"someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right)"
Is that always necessarily true...?
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#6"someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right)" Is that always necessarily true...?
Not always, but very often.
Guidelines in the US and Europe recommend compressions which are four or five cm deep, and that's a pretty significant percentage of the distance from your sternum to your back. Remember of course that one of the things that your rib cage is supposed to protect against is blows to your heart and lungs, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that a procedure that is supposed to compress your heart is also going to cause damage to your ribcage.
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#7As a 26 year old American, my experiences with the US hospital system have been so abysmal that I would consider not even seeking treatment for many serious conditions unless I knew the solution would be straightforward.
Abysmal in terms of having good medical outcomes, and being treated respectfully by hospital staff (who tend to be extremely overworked).
Plus, it's degrading to have no control over how much you will be charged, and whether insurance will cover it.
I personally have had one relatively minor medical issue, so the above comes more from experiences with family members in the hospital.
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#8"someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right)" Is that always necessarily true...?
I once applied enough force to cause a rib to puncture a lung :(
I did it wrong.
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#9"someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right)" Is that always necessarily true...?
I would imagine it is. If you do CPR for any length of time, it's going to break something.
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#10I've saw this article back in 2011.
Sometime after that I had conversations with my Grandmother and Mother about their wishes.
I now know their expectations, and they know mine. It's important to think about death, and these situations. It's even more important to express your feelings to those who have the power to impact how you will be treated.