why do brain surgeons save people who they know will end up as

>>8800574
because medicine still benefits from it. larger sample size of experiments.

>>8800574
because its funny

>>8800574
because they don't actually know. all they have is """statistics""" on recovery rates.

but those stats are meaningless if doctors start routinely rounding peoples' chances down to 0%

>>8800574
Experience so they can further advance their techniques

>>8800574
Big pharma knows vegetals are good customer. Wake up sheeple!!!!?!!!!

>>8800662
>>8800662

yea they dont know what happens if they remove 1/5 of your brain

>>8800574
Because you can learn a lot from trying. My grandfather is over 90 and they keep feeding him anti cancer medication. Every time they extend 1 person's life they learn a bit more for when YOU get sick.

>>8800667
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61127-1/fulltext

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-found-to-be-missing-cerebellum/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

>>8800574
cuz insurance pays well n they like the challenge

>>8800574
>>8800576
Because their bank account still benefits from the insurance pay out.

>>8800667
fampai, that's the reason half of them perform the surgeries anyways. Because we DON'T know what happens. It's still an area of heavy research, and an area where data you can collect from live patients is the only way to perform the research, since it's inhumane to subject people to this without the medical need to.

tl;dr: It's in the name of science.

>>8800574
That sounds dangerously close to a philosophy question. You should probably ask this on >>>/his/

>>8800574
>why do brain surgeons save people who they know will end up as a vegetable anyway?

legally required to do so. physicians are obligated to do everything in their power to keep you alive.