Posted on 03/25/2005 5:43:29 AM PST by Mershon
"The consent is obtained from the family." milestone
Huh?
I suspect she may be agenda driven.
This would be better if there was footnotes and sources- it is all anecdotes.
I dont agree or disagree with the contents of this article- it just has no sources. My father was just in a hospital and they treated him wonderfully. Is my story more convincing than her story?
The "many old people are admitted to the hospital and subsequently die" complaint sounds suspiciously like the "many people undergo medical care and don't enjoy a 100% success" complaint which fuels so many medical malpractice suits. Perhaps, anecdotes about homicidally obsessed doctors aside, medicine is simply imperfect.
Reminds me of the Onion article about the death rate remaining stubbornly at 100%.
A friend told me that she witnessed a nurse give a morphine od to a dying man while his wife was out of the room. My friend was young and inexperienced. I found that it was interesting that my husband and his brother sat for four days in thier mother's room while she was dying and that she died during the three hours while they were showering, shaving and grabbing a bite to eat.
I have other stories.
I do not agree fully with this author, I do not think anyone with a feeding tube should be in a hospice.
While my mother lay asleep, dying of terminal renal cell carcinoma on the adjacent twin bed, my father (a family practitioner, radiologist M.D.) asked me in March 1985, if he should just give her "an injection" and "be done with it". He was already living with another woman he had been with for 10 years with my mothers knowledge.
All I could say was no, it's not right don't do it. It's wrong. I remembered his stories about kids he had "let die" in emergency rooms who had O.D.'d on drugs. For some, the medical profession drills humanity out of the soul. My father didn't have any problem taking the life of the unborn, the elderly or the comatose. He was the perfect definition of evil. And no one was ever able to stop him.
He took my words and didn't kill her outright. But she had a very slow and painful death.
Yeah, you're right. What she relates is probably not true. She is a mere nurse. I'm sure she doesn't have any idea what she is talking about. We should read people's opinions on this who are not medical professionals instead. We should cover our eyes and not get too worried about things.
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This is what our constitution guarantees us in this country. But without "life," then...
You don't agree with what?
"For instance, how often have we heard that Medicare and Medicaid are “running out?” “So why not relieve pain and lighten the financial burden of our families and society?”"
Hmmmm! A reason that the dems are not worried about SS running out? Is this their solution? Makes you wonder.
I said:
I do not agree fully with this author, I do not think anyone with a feeding tube should be in a hospice.
Wow. Lots of information in here I've never heard before. Passing this on to others today. Thanks.
Ping for later read...
I don't think this has anything to do with SS or the Democrats. This is not a political issue. There are many Republicans with malformed consciences on life issues as well. The point is, our country was founded on the principles of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Without life, then...
"I do not think anyone with a feeding tube should be in a hospice."
Where should they be? The pope just had a breathing tube inserted, and he is "dying," but is not operating without it and is outside of the hospital.
Your point is lost on me. Clarification?
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