Thanks a lot, Doc.

Okay, I was watching the Discovery Health channel (aka: the freak channel) and there was this story about some little kid who got ran over by some douchebag and he had actually suffered an internal decapitation! Basically his skull had seperated from his spinal cord, but his head remained attached!
The fucked up thing is that this kid was still alive!

So the docs decided they were going to try to save the kid's life and stick his head back on him. They succeed, but then they were afraid he would be paralyzed from the neck down. Well to everyone's amazement the kid had regained his ability to walk and pulled through. It's a miracle!!!

Or is it?

True the kid was walking, but he is still fucked up looking. I guess "walking" is a poor choice of words here... more like wobbling. Plus one of his arms are completely useless and just dangled from side to side like a dead fish, plus he has this contraption on his neck that I assume helps him breathe as well as keep is head on.

That brings up a question on how far a doc should go to save someone's life. So they saved some random guy's life, but he can never walk, talk, breathe on his own, etc for the rest of his life. His life will be full of constant pain and misery.
Would the doctors still consider this a success?

Personally if I were the patient I wouldn't be so freaking grateful to them for saving my life. "Gee thank you, doctor for condeming me to a living death!"
Normally, I'd kick their asses, but since I would probably be paralyzed or otherwise too messed up to carry out the threat, i would give them a REALLY mean look... if I had control of my facial muscles that is.

You think Christopher Reeve was thankful when he woke up as a living corpse? I don't think so.

Nope, I would rather take a dirt nap than to go on living like that.
Save your "miracles" for someone else, doc.