What is a life worth living?

True shared decision-making in neurosurgical oncology: does it really exist?

“…In addition, one might question if you can really understand what it means to be hemiplegic after a tumor resection while you are sitting in a doctor's room without any symptoms at this moment, able to walk out of the door any moment. People change their perspective of what is acceptable during life and learn to live with deficits while still enjoying life although they previously judged these deficits as unacceptable [3]. Physicians also have to recognize that an unacceptable outcome in their opinion might not be an unacceptable outcome for the patient [27].…”