If someone was 82, and a quality-of-life surgery is elected to be performed, it is always the patient and the doctors making that decision.
Surgeries can go wrong, they carry risk, heart surgery more so, heart surgery with an 82 year old even more so. Should we be holding the health care system accountable?
Even when the risks are known? Do we all of a sudden have the expectation that every open heart surgery will be successful and no one will die?
Hospitals shouldn't be rewarded for failures, but placing full blame on an organization with an impossible mandate seems a little bit unfair.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/neil-armstrong-hea...
If someone was 82, and a quality-of-life surgery is elected to be performed, it is always the patient and the doctors making that decision. Surgeries can go wrong, they carry risk, heart surgery more so, heart surgery with an 82 year old even more so. Should we be holding the health care system accountable? Even when the risks are known? Do we all of a sudden have the expectation that every open heart surgery will be successful and no one will die? Hospitals shouldn't be rewarded for failures, but placing full blame on an organization with an impossible mandate seems a little bit unfair.