naomi - // I don't think they're keeping him alive simply because he's married to a celebrity. They must think there's hope. //
I don't think any doctor - past or present - would dream that they were!!
With one apparent exception who appears to think that deeply unpleasant cynicism is an automatic and unavoidable result of a lifetime spent in a caring profession.
Personally, I think cynicism is inbuilt, and may be exacerbated by outside influences, but in now way is it caused by them.
If it was, we would have no-one in caring professions at all - but happily, the reality is that most caring people care from start to finish, and understand and assimilate the hard aspects of their careers, and the effects it can have on them - but they keep it under control, which anyone can do if they wish to.
Some apparently simply don't wish to.