chronically ill

Intec was once an elite athlete,full of life & vigour.
There were great hopes that she will win an Olympic gold.
But she has been rather sick for a a few years.
She is now in a nursing home being cared for by the same medical team.
She does have some assets & also getting a little centrelink payment.
The doctors are charging all that money & more to get her back into shape,but they don't realy care because they are not important family members.
When the family ( we,the shareholders) ask them as to when she is going to run a marathon ,They answer...She is breathing,ain't she.
If you think that the doctors are the problem,the family is a bigger one.
She doesn't have a big brother or influential family member that the doctors have regard to or be afraid of.
In other words they have a free hand & they think they own the poor patient (as a matter of fact they have owned her for too long)
May be it is time to give the doctors some of their own medicine.
Some might say that the medicine might give the doctors a tummy ache or make them unwell & the patient will suffer in return,which is a valid point( this why we should stay away from the lethal injection for the time being.)