Almost exactly 18 months ago, my then 87 year old father, after feeling unwell and having some fluid problems with his lungs was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer. He turned down treatment and died at home a couple days before Christmas last year.
I've come away from the experience very unhappy with the medical system. There's a long list, things that in any other industry would be prosecuted. The medical and hospice systems are as near to worthless as any amount of money can buy -- at most times an absolute farce.
These were people who went out of their way to make things a little less worse, but they all worked on the periphery of the system: drivers, suppliers, and so on.
Fuck cancer, but also fuck the American medical system, and anybody who's gotten in the way of making it more sane and compassionate.
I've come away from the experience very unhappy with the medical system. There's a long list, things that in any other industry would be prosecuted. The medical and hospice systems are as near to worthless as any amount of money can buy -- at most times an absolute farce.
These were people who went out of their way to make things a little less worse, but they all worked on the periphery of the system: drivers, suppliers, and so on.
Fuck cancer, but also fuck the American medical system, and anybody who's gotten in the way of making it more sane and compassionate.
I miss my Dad.