IF you were a Medical Doctor ..

[Lois_Lane]

@NeSCio

[note the bold part]

wat kind of silly question is this!? This scenario is nowhere near realistic. Let me explain:

if the doctors KNOW the patient will not survive for long (based on current scientific knowledge) the patients are not given very intense cures of chemotherapy. The only thing they give is palliative therapy to relieve the symptoms as much as possible. e.g. if someone has a metastasized melanoma (basically end stage) the docs only give therapy if and when needed for palliation of symptoms.

Moreover, if a tumor is such that there are ongoing clinical trials to see if a new medication might work, the patient is asked if s/he wants to participate in such trail (informed consent).

No normal doc would give full scale therapy to a patient knowing that the patient will die soon, meaning that therapy won’t have any curing effect in any case.

The only instance persons are given full scale treatment is if a -realistic- chance of survival exists.

moreover, in those cases when a chance is still taken to give full treatment to someone who has very slim chances of survival you soon enough find out whether or not the treatment had some effect, and you (dis)continue with the treatment based on that.

Not a dumb question but an inquiry.
And you answer makes sense :k: