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historycat95 t1_itmnh4v wrote

How would you like to have been the surgeon who worked on him?

That would be a nightmare probably.

It would feel like he's looking over your shoulder WHILE under.

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MedicalJargon-itis t1_itn43nv wrote

Doing an aorta surgery on a 97 year old has a huge mortality risk. It's like throwing a hail mary pass. You're a god if it works, but no one's mad if it flops lifelessly on the ground.

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Desblade101 t1_itppmcp wrote

I was telling my wife yesterday that we should basically say no extreme measures to keep people alive past 85 years old unless they specifically say otherwise.

Then she was like so you want the 90 year old dancing her booty off for her birthday at the drag show to just give up if she dies?

Yes, literally yes, or we can break all her ribs, put a trach and a peg in her, and watch her be a vegetable for the last 5 years of her life instead of letting our last memories of her being the cool old lady that can still shake it with the drag queens at 90.

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Heaps_Flacid t1_itn9jb2 wrote

It gets worse. There's an extremely common surgical tool he designed and popularised called DeBakey's forceps which were undoubtedly used during the procedure.

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