Before he was a 2016 presidential candidate, Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, frequently raised questions about the high cost of end-of-life medical care — and asked whether patients should be able to pursue every available treatment. The statements touched on many of the most sensitive questions about care for the elderly.
“Do people just get to choose on their own, you know, ‘I’ve been, you know, completely devoid of any mental faculties for 10 years, but want to be kept alive regardless of anything that comes down the pike?’” Carson asked at a September 2004 meeting of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
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