Color me completely unsurprised

"In a study that sheds new light on the effects of end-of-life care, doctors have found that patients with terminal lung cancer who began receiving palliative care immediately upon diagnosis not only were happier, more mobile and in less pain as the end neared - but they also lived nearly three months longer."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/health/19care.html?src=me&ref=homepage


I'm all for modern medicine, but I'm getting the feeling that in a few hundred years some of our proceedures will be considered as barbaric as we consider bleeding now.