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    It is not the case that If 'cure' is redefined as restoring the patient's capacity for meaningful agency rather than biological immortality, skilled physicians demonstrably succeed even in terminal cases.

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    • 1.Redefining 'cure' to mean psychological/existential restoration conflates distinct medical and philosophical problems, obscuring whether clinical goals were actually met.
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    • 2.Terminal patients facing cognitive decline, pain, or severe organ failure may lack capacity for meaningful agency regardless of physician skill, making the claim empirically unfalsifiable.
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    • 3.Crediting physicians with 'curing' terminal conditions through agency restoration risks obscuring the fact that the underlying disease remains unhealed and progressing.
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    • 1.Meaningful agency—capacity to make decisions, set goals, maintain relationships—directly correlates with patients' own definitions of a life worth living.
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    • 2.Palliative care, advance directives, and existential counseling demonstrably enable terminal patients to exercise agency and report improved quality of end-of-life experience.
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    • 3.Redefining 'cure' by patient-centered outcomes rather than biological markers aligns medicine with its actual achievable impact in cases where disease progression is inevitable.
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