Posted on 09/02/2009 2:34:10 PM PDT by steven33442
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death. Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away. But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving, the experts warn
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Obama’s Death Panels would help prevent this sort of mis-diagnosis, wouldn’t they?
This is very encouraging
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And gee, isn’t it coincidental that it’s cheaper....oh, it couldn’t be an unintended consequence of financial constraints, how could I think such a thing. \sarc
It is pretty obvious that Obama wants to transform our healthcare system into something like England’s’ where medical resources are emphasized for younger people, while pulling the plug on older people.
It isn’t so much that Obama will pull the plug on Elderly Health Care as that it won’t be plugged in to begin with.
Ahhh savings on medicare. This will help the collective. Maybe there will be a market after all for Afganistans poppys.
If we get Obamacare, does this mean I can slip a C-Note to the doc so he will withold treatment for my Dad ???
I stand to inherit and really can’t wait for the cash ...
Something like that ~ just hypothetical you know, but look at that old geezer doing the shooting at the Holocaust Museum ~ 89 years old and still dangerous as hell.
It's not just old Nazis who can do such things these days. Thanks to the powers of antibiotics, x-rays and catscans many of us can move into old age fit as a fiddle with good vision and steady trigger fingers.
Matt Drudge just picked up this article on his webpage. Sometimes I wonder if he gets a lot of his material by reading Free Republic?
The hard news business is a regular old dog pile.
“In 2007-08 16.5 per cent of deaths in Britain came about after continuous deep sedation, according to researchers at the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, twice as many as in Belgium and the Netherlands.”
unbelievable high percent. Killing machine.
Frankly, we need to spend more money on people under the age of 65, and less on people who are going to die soon anyway.
What is the point of spending $800,000 on medical procedures for an 83 year old anyway?
Sorry, just had to bring a dose of reality into this discussion.
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