The “end of life discussion” is not the death panel.
The regulations that limit what treatments are available to you along with the administrators who administer those regulations, thats the death panel.
The doctor may tell you he’s done all he can, when what he means is he has done all he can from the menu of options that he is allowed to offer you.
According to the last paragraph of the above excerpt, enough people though it was to remove them from the bill.
Short cut avoiding the hospice direct to the morgue
. The treatment plan aims to allow patients to die with as much dignity and in as little distress as possible. It was developed by Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Liverpool's Marie Curie Hospice.
Euthanizing 10,000 Brits a month at its peak.
Yes, there comes a time when the doctor can do no more to extend your life. Recently a friend’s mother had that conversation with her doctor. She was tired and sick and was ready to meet God face to face.
Agree. This is not the “death panels” she was complaining about. I ask patients daily about their wishes for DNR status or not. It would be wrong not to ask since I am admitting them to the hospital and the automatic setting is a full code. Heck, I have decided I do not want that is certain situations. Don’t you want to a make your own decisions?? I do.