My noble friend referenced me in saying that doctors were overoptimistic. What I said was that one review of evidence has found that fewer than one in four patients outlived the prognosis when their clinicians predicted survival of six months or less. I said that that research rather suggests that doctors have a tendency to be overly optimistic about how long people will live, because it shows that when people thought they had six months to live, actually a large number of them failed to get through the six-month period.
Assisted Dying Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Warner
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Friday, 16 January 2015.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Assisted Dying Bill [HL].
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