Finishing Off Patients

What a feeling of satisfaction a surgeon must have knowing his skilled hands have saved a patient's life. How can a so-called palliative care physician ever feel anything but utterly useless, knowing that they never will experience the satisfaction of saying "I saved that patient". I always had the quaint notion doctors and hospitals existed to sustain and preserve every individual human life if at all possible. My Dad fell prey to the same "care" a race horse receives if it breaks a leg on the track. I will always be filled with revulsion over the brutal treatment we and he suffered at Vanderbilt.