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Sentenced to death on the NHS
The Telegraph ^ | 09.02.09 | Kate Devlin

Posted on 09/02/2009 3:29:19 PM PDT by Chickensoup

to death on the NHS 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across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.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.

As a result the scheme is causing a “national crisis” in patient care, the letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke’s cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.

“Forecasting death is an inexact science,”they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death “without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: death; euthanesia; healthcare; hillarycare; nhs; obama; obamacare; romneycare; socializedmedicine

1 posted on 09/02/2009 3:29:19 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

That’s the dream, that’s the dream that Obama and the dem leaders have for each American. It is that dream, that they want to force us to pay for.


2 posted on 09/02/2009 3:35:31 PM PDT by Gator113 (It's about stupidity, stupid. IMPEACH HERE, IMPEACH NOW.)
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To: Chickensoup

A preview of Obamacare— how else do you think you can cut costs?


3 posted on 09/02/2009 3:40:58 PM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: Chickensoup
claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death

Judged? By whom...the Death Panel?

4 posted on 09/02/2009 3:46:08 PM PDT by JrsyJack (There's a little Jim Thompson in all of us)
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To: Chickensoup
"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.

This is going on right now in the UK, under government run healthcare. This is exactly what is going to happen if the Dem healthcare bill passes here.

5 posted on 09/02/2009 3:46:12 PM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: Chickensoup

When they decide to prematurely end the lives of the terminally ill,would you doubt that they would, prematurely, end your life, if they could?

If they get away with prematurely ending the lives of the terminally ill, what’s to stop them from,prematurely, ending yours?


6 posted on 09/02/2009 3:48:31 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: Chickensoup

“The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS. “

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.


7 posted on 09/02/2009 3:48:47 PM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: Chickensoup

Is there any input from the family and patient about going on the “Path”. “Path” what a frightening term.


8 posted on 09/02/2009 3:48:59 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obamacare is "Shovel Ready".)
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To: Chickensoup
Kill babies and old people.

Yes sirree, the Libs are on the side of the defenseless, huh?

Real Humanitarians and all that

9 posted on 09/02/2009 3:53:51 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property)
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To: Chickensoup

Levin is discussing this article!


10 posted on 09/02/2009 4:07:54 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
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To: Chickensoup

so it turns out there ARE death panels.


11 posted on 09/02/2009 5:10:59 PM PDT by freepersunite
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To: freepersunite

There are death panels.

There is good hospice and bad hospice.


12 posted on 09/02/2009 5:41:15 PM PDT by Chickensoup (minestra di pollo)
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To: SmartInsight

Just know it goes on here privately every day


13 posted on 09/02/2009 6:51:28 PM PDT by Chickensoup (minestra di pollo)
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To: Chickensoup

You are only of value as long as you keep on working and supporting the State.

Stop working, and you stop paying taxes, and your value falls to Zero.

Zip

Nada.

Death awaits you.

Might as well let the State help it come sooner.

Because they will and wish it to come sooner.

This benefits the State. They need their G-5 Gulfstream jets!!!

Why are you arguing???


14 posted on 09/02/2009 7:05:20 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Chickensoup

these are the death panels that everyone is talking about


15 posted on 09/02/2009 9:52:49 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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“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.”

wow!


16 posted on 09/03/2009 9:02:03 AM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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“In 2007-08 16.5 per cent of deaths in Britain came about after continuous deep sedation,

Almost 1/5 of the deaths were people who were ‘Put to Sleep’


17 posted on 09/03/2009 12:24:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (minestra di pollo)
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