Doctor Mike

Is that fair to say?

Because in flipping into the medical side of things, we spend the most money healthcare wise on the last few days of life.

And sometimes at the expense of the person.

Because we want them to be around longer when in reality, I'm sometimes telling loved ones, hey, this is going to cause more harm.

The benefit here, forget it, is limited.

It's non-existent.

Well, no, we have hospice.

So we would focus on comfort as opposed to saying that let's act, even like a DNR order saying, well, let's not do chest compressions because baseline, their quality of life is terrible and they're really sick.

Their heart stopped.

Now, if we bring them back, quality of life drops significantly, even in someone who's healthy after their heart stops.

So like, what are we getting for them?

So we try and have those conversations.

CYA medicine.

That's our term for it, but you guys have the same.

And it might not be right for the animal.

I didn't get to see it because it was like bandaged and wrapped with that extra bandage.

So it's like, not every day, not every day, but it was, the issue was more in my mind of thinking, okay, this is a 12 year old Siberian Husky.

If you're a surgeon, this is my mindset and correct me if I'm wrong for assuming any of this, because I'm making a lot of assumptions.

If you're, let's say you're going in for the procedure and you see the tumor is quite invasive in that it's surrounding blood vessels.

It's surrounding a lot of tissue.