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- From: laura@TASVAX.NSWSES.NAVY.MIL
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: "'X' Days/Weeks/Months/Years To Live"
- Message-ID: <20898@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:26:28 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.190219.159@news.wesleyan.edu>,<15752@pitt.UUCP>
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- Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division
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- In article <15752@pitt.UUCP>, geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul18.190219.159@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
- >>Funny thing: I know lots of folks who claim to have been told by their doctors
- >>that they have "'X' days/weeks/months/years to live", but I know (or even know
- >>OF) absolutely no doctors who claim ever to have said any such thing to their
- >>patients. What do you suppose accounts for this data discrepancy?
-
- >I don't know, but I think it is similar to all those who have been
- >told they would "never walk again". People like to think of themselves
- >as somehow being the exception and beyond prediction.
-
- Gordon, could you please tell me what you mean by this. (I'm being totally
- serious). Are you saying that these people only *think* they are being
- told these things? If so, I know this to be tru in at least one case. My
- mother's oncologist told us that mom had "15 to 30 days" to live. I did
- not misunderstand what he was saying. I did not *imagine* he had said it
- because that's what I wanted to hear. On the contrary, I was quite surprised
- that he would give such a figure.
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- laura@tasvax.nswses.navy.mil | Naval Surface Warfare Center
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