True enough I suppose. The people who misguided him into this deserve far worse fates than what he is going through (especially since he's probably not the only one they "helped") but at some point a person has to start making their own decisions.

I think at the point of the drugs I would still feel some sympathy since doctors give them out almost like candy and most people probably don't understand chemical reactions inside the body well enough (myself included). But when a doctor proposes something like...that. Most surgeries should already be considered affairs as things can always go wrong, and these ones more so as they are, for a lack of better term, outright butchery.

Maybe I just expect too much from a person who makes sweeping life choices like these and I should regard them as the mental npcs they are so often portrayed as