Posted on 03/30/2016 3:50:41 AM PDT by DFG
The owner of a Frisco medical company regularly directed nurses to overdose hospice patients with drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits and sent text messages like, “You need to make this patient go bye-bye,” an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by NBC 5.
The executive, Brad Harris, founded the company, Novus Health Care Services, Inc., in July 2012, according to state records.
Novus’ office is on Dallas Parkway in Frisco.
No charges have been filed against Novus or Harris. Harris, 34, did not return messages left with a receptionist and at his Frisco home.
Harris, an accountant, told a nurse to overdose three patients and directed another employee to increase a patient’s medication to four times the maximum allowed, the FBI said.
(Excerpt) Read more at crimeblog.dallasnews.com ...
And they ridiculed Palin for talking Death Panels.
I assumed this was SOP for hospices.
I went to Frisco High School.
The town is the armpit of the state. (actually another part of anatomy would be better but I’m being polite)
Anyone who lives there probably is suicidal.
Frisco is hardly the town it was then.
A lot of people delude themselves about hospice. In many cases the morphine drip is just steadily increased until the desired outcome is achieved.
People can have differing opinions about euthanasia but to think that hospice is not — at least partially — in the euthanasia business is to be willfully ignorant.
I am a hospice nurse. Ethical nurses won’t do this, and most would report the owner.
This is NOT SOP for Hospice.
There is NO legal maximum amount for meds given.
Nope
You are willfully ignorant.
Meds are titrated for symptom control.
Hospice nurses are NOT death angels.
Nothing new, dirty littlle secret in hospital ICUs. If you ever have an unresponsive loved one they want to “make comfortable”, this is what that means.
The end comes for us all and it can be painful and long. If you haven’t been through this with a loved one, you probably shouldn’t comment on it because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
“I assumed this was SOP for hospices.”
It probably is, but the people involved are usually smart enough not to leave a recorded trail.
“The end comes for us all and it can be painful and long. If you haven’t been through this with a loved one, you probably shouldn’t comment on it because you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
+1. This sort of thing goes on all of the time, and isn’t anything new.
In the elder care industry, it is called “turnover” and is watched over by management.
A one person ObamaCare death panel. The model of efficiency.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Be prepared. Teach your children.
As a retired nurse who worked 7 years in hospice, thank you for your honest reply. Hospice nurse are compassionate enough to be at patients sides in a very difficult time. I have not in 40 years of nursing met a nurse who advocated or would go along with euthanasia. Pain is a subjective matter and it is correct that there is no maximum legal dose of pain med.
All that said this man should be punished for murder if indeed he said “make them go bye bye” along with anyone who would do that. Obamacare will have death panels but it will most likely be through denial of services and people dying in pain.
You are a ‘Coon’?
The city council up there killed the multi-city performing arts center, but when it comes to sports, the taxpayers are willing to pay for anything.
And to think I only thought that they stopped giving them water!
How do you think I can say it? Hospitals now will do this with yo-yo patients. I think that’s why once you go in the “hospitalist” is your doctor. I’ve left instructions that if I am unconscious, no opiates are to be administered.
If I knew then what I know now...
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