Doctors use data and experience to give their best prognoses for fatal illnesses – but patients can live for months or even years. Here, a consultant explains why
A blind teenager with a brain tumour is at the centre of a UK court case that pits the hopes of his parents against medical opinion.
In February, doctors argued that the 18-year-old had no more than two weeks to live and that active treatment including chemotherapy and brain surgery would be futile. If his heart were to stop beating, he should not be resuscitated.
It takes experience to know that sometimes you don’t know
Could it be that, instead of the cancer, it was his expectation of death that killed him?
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