User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/Monty Oum is in the hospital/@comment-3146930-20150131103223/@comment-3146930-20150131203452

Pretty much; my mom has been a nurse for at least 25 years now, so she has told me stories and hospital policies. A lot of the time doctors will never tell a patient/their family the chances of survival because it can come off as false hope. So even if a patient had a 95% chance of making a full recovery, the doctors would still have to basically stay very vague because if they do die and you told the family that the patient would most likely be fine, that can lead to all kinds of problems like lawsuits or whatever. Obviously this is a more case by case thing, but at this point I'm mostly just curious about what it is exactly (as most of us probably are).