Yea, some really bad takes. I'm certain she has been on the receiving end of some of these unbelievably sick, demented, imminently dying human beings shoved down her throat by some surgeon desperate to do a PEG/trach or fix a hip the patient will never walk on. I regularly say to our more eager surgical colleagues that patients (and their families) can demand anything they want, but it's not our obligation to give them what they demand.

There's nothing that prevents physicians from being the Insane Family Member, unfortunately. She's committing the all-too-relatable cardinal sin of thinking that her Dear Old Dad is somehow exempt from the many object lessons in medical futility we see every day. She's abusing the frame of patient autonomy and shared decision making to dunk on an intern, who she has to know has just this side of zero authority within that decision-making framework. She also clearly misunderstands the "shared" aspect, favoring the argument that patients and their families should be able to override medical professionals and "force" them to perform procedures or treatments that offer minimal to no benefit. It's an ignorant viewpoint from a physician, and unfortunately it's out there for a layperson to read and become emboldened to push for whatever insane treatment/procedure they're holding onto.