Unbelief

My poor dad's in there with a drain exiting his cranium, and he's still not had a chest or abdominal CT, nevermind a head MRI. The neuro-docs still want to operate tomorrow to take out his cranial hotspots, without knowing where they came from and in complete ignorance of what's going on below below the neck.

Let's say he had an invasive, primary lung neoplasm, just for argument. That might be likely to kill him long before the secondary in his brain. If so, wouldn't you want to know? Were this the case, I'd want to know comparative odds of impairment and prognosis following each procedure.