We were just in a situation where my mom was in the hospital for a gallbladder removal. She is 92. She had the operation and subsequently got some kind of infection along with retaining water. Hospital at some point ordered nothing by mouth for TWO DAYS while the idiots debated whether it was safe to do a needle procedure to drain water from her abdomen, ultimately deciding it was not safe.
Then wouldn’t switch her diet back to normal food, keeping her on liquids only for a couple days, then told us she needed a feeding tube because “she was starving.” Which, if so, the hospital had contributed to! We said no feeding tube and started bringing in our own gourmet food, since everyone knows hospital food sucks.
Doctor was livid we wouldn’t do a feeding tube and said we were contributing to mom’s death and she (doctor was female) would discharge mom to home hospice. We said fine. This was a two week ordeal.
Mom has now been home for maybe six weeks in care of my sister and is doing better, was not ever “starving” and we are still mystified about this feeding tube recommendation. Anyway, so glad we got her out of the hospital. And yes, doctors think that, at a certain age, it’s been long enough and you might as well drop dead.
This is almost identical to what happened to a close relative. The hospital caused the problem and were alerted with plenty of time to intervene, but just upped the pain med, which covered over the damage now happening, until they realized the insistent pain was real and from their prior drug inducing a rip through the colon.
Same basic age, too.
It just sickens me.
Years ago when I consulted for a medical association more than one MD told me with a straight face that the “useful life” of humans was about 75 and no steps should be taken to extend life beyond that age. I quit soon after.
Years later these same psychopaths used ventilators to kill COVID patients in the hospital.