[Ben Mugged]

Oops?

[frogjerk]

No OOPS!

[Always Right]

For example, some hospitals have used yellow to signify “Do Not Resuscitate,” leading to several near-misses with patients wearing yellow Lance Armstrong “Livestrong” bracelets.

If I were guessing, I would imagine there were probably a few misses they don't want to talk about.

[SoldierMedic]

Why not put that information on a medic alert bracelet, as is done for allergies? I’ve never received a logical answer.

I recall reading in the Seattle Times a year or so ago about the increasing popularity of older people getting their DNR request tattood to their chest. Really makes it hard to miss.

[weegee]

The State will determine who lives and who dies. They will be picking up the tab and deciding who gets the money for his illness and who doesn’t.

[weegee]

IF they are going to color code a bracelet to mean “just let me die”, let it be BLACK. Not Yellow.

[Phantom Lord]

How about the rest of us have free reign to whack those wearing those stupid Live Strong bracelets.

They are more annoying than those damn ribbons people wear.

[SC DOC]

It will be hard to get a DNR color, as most are already taken.

[The KG9 Kid]

My sister in law in NYC is pretty deeply involved with a liberal college student who's studying to become a high school guidance counselor. He's a real nice kid; typical liberal and more than a little bit of a sissy, but I still like him OK.

We visited them in NYC over the holidays and the girls took off to get some Chinese takeout so he and I had a few moments to spend time getting to know each other. I noticed that he had these two colored rubber bracelets around his left wrist. I thought they were just some big rubber bands he was saving until he mentioned that one band was a Lance Armstrong 'Live Strong' bracelet and the other one was for breast cancer research.

People tell me that I curl my top lip over my bottom lip when I try to keep from busting out laughing. I think I said something like 'Oh, that's nice' and changed the subject.

[fnord]

So there doesn’t have to be a document written, signed, and witnessed? Just having the right/wrong bracelet would affect your care, and the hospital doesn’t check to see if it is really the patient’s wishes?

How easy it would be for someone to slip a certain color bracelet on a nonresponsive patient to speed up their departure. Might make a good movie plot, but pretty dangerous in real life.