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dragontamer on March 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How doctors choose to die (2012)

It isn't the doctor's job to improve medicine, it is a researcher's job.

Doctors can only prescribe to you the 15% chance of survival, knowing that there's no greater benefit to medicine. They're too busy seeing patients to improve medicine.

mytochar on March 25, 2015 [–]

I'm not sure this is accurate, especially in the case of cancers. Doctors were part of the studies with at least one person I know.

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