Who's too old for major treatment? Age not always a barrier

Sunday, December 13, 2015 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

CHICAGO (AP) -- Irwin Weiner felt so good after heart surgery a few weeks before turning 90 that he stopped for a pastrami sandwich on the way home from the hospital. Dorothy Lipkin danced after getting a new hip at age 91. And at 94, William Gandin drives himself to the hospital for cancer treatments....

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