horrifying. It just gets more frightening. I really don't want to know about it - but we HAVE too. they have such a head start.
an excerpt:
, but which are now commonplace in textbooks, accreditation courses, and popular culture:
withholding/withdrawing nutrition and hydration, even when the patient is able to assimilate food and/or fluids
non-reversible sedation, usually through the use of opioids a more casual view of opioids
chronic disease is terminal disease
redefining "imminent." A prognosis of "imminent death" can mean that the patient might die in a day or so; or within a year.
Any one of us might die within a year. Does that mean all face "imminent death"?