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    Terminal illness cannot be cured by even the most skilled... — Carmelics
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    Terminal illness cannot be cured by even the most skilled doctor.

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    • 1.A good doctor is successful only when the patient has an illness that does not lead to death.
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    • 2.If a person's illness is terminal, the doctor can do nothing regardless of mastery.
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    • 1.Curing a terminal illness need not mean eliminating its biological cause; palliative medicine and hospice care can transform the dying process into a managed, dignified conclusion.
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    • 2.Hans Jonas and later bioethicists argue that medicine's proper goal includes alleviating suffering and restoring autonomy, not only achieving physiological cure.
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    • 3.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.The category 'terminal illness' is historically contingent: conditions once deemed fatal (e.g., certain cancers, HIV) became treatable through medical advance.
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    • 2.A claim about what 'even the most skilled doctor' can do must be indexed to a specific moment in medical knowledge, not treated as a timeless necessity.
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    A good doctor is able to use needles and medicines and is successful in his arts when he meets with a person who has not yet died who has an illness that does not lead to death. If the person’s illness is terminal, the doctor can do nothing, even if he is a master. The allotment connected to a serious illness is such that it cannot be cured, just as disorder among the people cannot be undone. Medicine cures illness just as instruction guides and pacifies the people. They are both a matter of all
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