A Doctor's Cousin Declined Chemo and Died at Home for $20 (archive.cancerworld.net)
Ken Murray, a retired family doctor, watched a colleague named Charlie turn down surgery that could have tripled his pancreatic-cancer survival odds. Charlie died months later without chemo or radiation.
A reader in the resurfaced HN thread found HN's own algorithm had cut the headline in half: the original ends "but it should be," turning a curiosity into an argument for the rest of us. Physicians in the thread confirmed the pattern, one describing giving his dying mother a final dose of morphine himself.
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