[MarMema]

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, researchers found that “mortality was over two times greater” for patients with DNRs than those without them.

This is shoddy journalism. And it is not cause and effect.

People who have signed DNRs are more likely to be a lot less healthy going into a hip fracture.

This is a POS article slamming the medical field. DNR patients get antibiotics and many other kinds of healthcare.

Seriously shoddy crap.

[Nifster]

I am one who had a DNR when a fall at work fractured my hip. Had my paperwork faxed to doc and hospital. I got great care. In rehab their doc who is younger than I berated me for my choice. I reported him.

I am fully informed and in my right mind. I don’t want docs poking and prodding and demanding more tests that are invasive. If my heart goes so be it. Throw a party. See you on the other side. Leave me in peace

[DeltaZulu]

Not to defend journalists but the article is reporting the results of research. So this is likely a conclusion of the researchers not the journalist. Ironically the quote you chose even starts with "... researchers found ...". Elsewhere in the article it says "... patients with DNRs have far worse recovery rates than patients with identical conditions and no DNRs." So your assertion about people with DNRs being less healthy appears to have been controlled for in the research.