Life or Death Decision Making: Patient or Surgeon?

Dr DeBakey, a cardiovascular surgeon who discovered mutliple surgical techniques and procedures, had to have the surgery himself recently. NYT he is 98 years old now and is back at work!! he had signed a paper not to have resuscitation, but was glad that the family had forced the team to do it. What he as a doctor had determined or didn't want before he was ill and what he is happy now are different. He stated to his medical team, many of them colleagues of his for more than 20 years, that he was glad they did what they needed to do and those kinds of decisions shouldn't get held up in committee meetings.