[Magdalen] Fwd: Breaking News Alert: Cancer has spread to brain, Jimmy Carter says

[Roger Stokes]

On 20/08/2015 16:10, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> Of course it is, and my last sentence indicated just that. I'm interested in having a more general conversation about ethics, resources, etc.
> When I was a hospital chaplain there were many situations where extraordinary or even futile measures were being taken on elderly patients, usually at the request of the family.

That can be the problem - they are thinking of themselves and not the 
patient.

Roger