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    It is not the case that Terminal illness cannot be cured by even the most skilled doctor.

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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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    • 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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