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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 900661" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>One of my brothers is a surgeon. One of the rare but dark ironies of his job was that there was one speech he could never make to the anxious family in the waiting room. At least not in this form or even effectively.</p><p></p><p>“The surgery was successful but the patient died.”</p><p></p><p>That can be a completely true statement even though it is one you can’t say effectively to a grieving family.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes a patient dies for reasons unrelated to the surgery. Perhaps they were too far gone and were going to die regardless. But the surgery was necessary if they were going to have any chance at all at survival. And the surgery was not what killed them.</p><p></p><p>We have performed successful surgery but the patient has been very sick for a long time and getting sicker. If they die it will not be the surgery that killed them. It will mean the cancer was too far progressed in this case.</p><p></p><p>But I truly believe the patient has a chance to live now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 900661, member: 1640"] One of my brothers is a surgeon. One of the rare but dark ironies of his job was that there was one speech he could never make to the anxious family in the waiting room. At least not in this form or even effectively. “The surgery was successful but the patient died.” That can be a completely true statement even though it is one you can’t say effectively to a grieving family. Sometimes a patient dies for reasons unrelated to the surgery. Perhaps they were too far gone and were going to die regardless. But the surgery was necessary if they were going to have any chance at all at survival. And the surgery was not what killed them. We have performed successful surgery but the patient has been very sick for a long time and getting sicker. If they die it will not be the surgery that killed them. It will mean the cancer was too far progressed in this case. But I truly believe the patient has a chance to live now. [/QUOTE]
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