the seventh and final article requires the physician to minister to the patient even if all the signs indicate that he or she is not responding to the treatment and will probably die. even a dying patient may need palliative care and made to be physically and mentally comfortable. in an interesting comparison to this, suśruta, the father of indian medicine, advises the physician not to treat a patient he suspects of being incurable so as not to be blamed for the patient's death and injure his reputation.