It also takes a lot longer to do a comprehensive assessment and chart documentation to back up your decision to forego treatment then it is to simply skip to the end and hand out boilerplate prescriptions to everyone.

This reminds me of an anecdote from Louis-Ferdinand Celine, who was an MD.

He was on board a passenger ship when a bunch of people got sick with food poisoning, so he lined them all up and shot a 1/4 grain of morphine into them, reasoning "no matter what's wrong with them, they'll feel better immediately." They all puked their guts out on deck.

Thanks for the very informative reply.