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In German hospitals, operations such as surgery, intubation, radiotherapy and artificial respiration - depending on the charging standards, the cost of hospitalization per person per day is about 1,600 euros - are cash cows. The author, Mathias Terns, has been practicing medicine for many years and has taken on countless cases, including patients who are old and frail and cannot be treated and can only survive by relying on machines. But in the face of these patients, what many doctors and hospitals are concerned about is not how to alleviate the patients' pain, but how to obtain economic profits. The more frequent and complex the treatments, the greater their profit potential. To this end, Dr. Ternes called for: We must further strengthen palliative care, rather than prolong the suffering of elderly patients through excessive treatment. After specific assessment, palliative care should be promoted to allow patients to die peacefully and with dignity. Through the stories of living patients who underwent surgery, dialysis, radiotherapy, artificial nutrition and other treatment methods, this book truly presents the pain they faced and the over-treatment they experienced, and reveals the current situation in Germany's current medical system that does not respect the wishes of patients and conducts over-treatment in order to obtain high economic profits.