Do you ever wonder why doctors try so hard?

dragon54 in the medical field where i worked for many years we tried to save people in the hope that they could recover some of'their past life.Even in the terminally ill people there is often just a chance that this person might live and get past all his disease. and sometimes we are really right. sometimes miracles do occur. Doctors and nurses and nurses aids work with the idea of hope. So many times a person with a lot of hopeless appearing injuries does suvive and makes a creditable life for himself or herself.We try so hard because we want people to live, not die, is that so very wrong? If we were not humane and caring we should not be in the medical field. most people give up much too soon. I have seen badly hurt people recover. and go on to happy lives in spite of some problems. we all want to live.I smashed my shoulder badly in a fall, and had to have the smashed bones taken out and a steel and plastic gizmo shoulder joint reeplacement put in . I am bionic and I have limited use of my left arm but had the suregeon not repaired me I would have had nothing but pain. the smashed bones rubbed against each other and caused intense pain. yes doctor do try hard and often they succeed too.

I understand , that the way of a person life might change drastically. Although people are very resilient and even without a limb or eye sight they live full lives. You never know why a person is here, and what you can learn from them or what they have yet to learn or achieve. I personally would not want to be trapped inside a body that is a vegetable , so that is something I would leave up to my family to consider. If there was even a small chance that I could live on and still love and be with my family , I would want to take that chance. Doctors do whatever they can because that's what they feel inside. Most doctors do care for people and do not just care about the money. I can understand looking down at that small child or person and wanting to save its life no matter what.

It is hard to say. I do think if there is absolutely no chance for them, leave them alone and let them die in peace.

Hi dragon, I guess you have a point But in my point of view they try hard because that's thier job to save life. I have a cousin die recently, she has a cancer and none of us knew it, becasue she keep it secret so every one got shock and blame doctor's for not saving her life until we found out that they already did try hard enough that the body cannot take anymore. she seems not sick at all and very happy all the time, all the while she been taking a ton of medicine to kill the pain. I guess without doctors that try hard she already die a long time ago and in pain at least with doctors help she been giving a change to live normally life and die not to suffer for a long time of pain. That's how i look at it. happy mylotting.