If you accept that this is simply the way we care for people—and that it usually produces the right results—you could call this an understandable medical approach. But if you picture your own mother accidentally receiving a cancer treatment she doesn’t need while the medicine that will save her life sits on a shelf nearby, you’ll probably come to a different conclusion about what is, in fact, “understandable.” The hardworking, ethical doctors, nurses, and medical professionals who go to war with death every day, while navigating the overarching standard-of-care stipulations of governmental
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