Terminal cancer patients are treated as cash cows.
Patients become cash cows when faced with their own imminent mortality. To quote a Kenny Chesney song “everybody want to go to heaven but nobody want to go now”.
Unfortunately I’ve had those discussions with families/patients in situations where it was blatantly obvious even to non-medical people that it is over. But they almost always opt for the one last chance. Guess it eases the conscience when “everything is done”.
Hospice care does need to be discussed and explained more frequently.
JLC