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KD Since: May, 2009
2025-05-20 06:04:32

It might help to know more about the reasoning of both the son and the surgeons. If the son's answer was not motivated by the patient's best interests (like, amputation would be Revenge for some past grievance), then there's less reason to listen to him.

Anti-Advice is related (get someone's advice, do the opposite), but usually reserved for characters who are consistently so inept that they always arrive at the wrong answer.

Someone1981 Since: Aug, 2022
2025-05-20 07:48:12

Apparently the reason the son preferred the safer treatment was that it was safer, and the father had previously said that as long as he's alive they (father and son) have hope for a better life. The doctors ultimately conclude that without a right arm the father's ability to provide for the family would vanish. (This is an immigrant family).

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