Patients Close to 100 Undergoing Risky Surgery

Patients aged close to 100 are having high-risk surgery for deadly conditions.



A senior medical official said that doctors were engaging in “futile care” and wasting taxpayers’ money on risky operations “just because they can.”



But the doctors performing say they are extending the lives of otherwise fit and elderly people in an era when 80-year olds “are a lot healthier” than a those of a decade ago.