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Pensioner 'left to die in hospice after doctors wrongly diagnosed him with cancer'
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Oct. 12, 2009 | James Tozer

Posted on 10/12/2009 12:45:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'.

Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year-old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers. He died within two weeks.

But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back, and he was in fact suffering from pneumonia brought on by a chest infection.

To his family's horror, they were told he could have recovered if he'd been given the correct treatment.

Today, after being given an £18,000 pay-out over her ordeal, his widow Pat branded his treatment 'barbaric' and accused the doctors of manslaughter.

Mr Jones was being cared at a hospice which was central to the contentious Liverpool Care Pathway under which dying patients have their life support taken away, although the hospice claims it wasn't officially applied in his case.

The scheme is now used by hundreds of hospitals and care homes, and is followed in as many as 20,000 deaths a year.

Supporters say it brings dignity to a patient's final hours, but critics fear that some are placed into it incorrectly.

The retired bricklayer was diagnosed with stomach cancer in May 2005. After undergoing chemotherapy, he had his stomach removed by surgeons at Royal Liverpool Hospital that September.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; deathpanels; healthcare; liberalfascism; moralabsolutes; nhs; obamacare; socializedmedicine
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To: twigs
They hasten death.

Not the ones I worked with. At the point we engaged Hospice care any further 'medical' care was absolutely futile. All those doctors would have done was prolong agony.

The timing of death is God’s domain, not ours.

And yet you want Doctors to do all they can to artificially prolong life. Remind me again who is screwing with God's domain?

41 posted on 10/12/2009 1:11:41 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

My elderly uncle who died at home but under hospice care after losing his battle with lung cancer would very much disagree were he still here to argue the point. He received excellent palliative care after he refused further medical treatment for his cancer.


42 posted on 10/12/2009 1:11:49 PM PDT by missycocopuffs
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Concentration camp inmates had better treatment than this.


43 posted on 10/12/2009 1:12:10 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo; Lurker

“To look in the eyes of a Hospice nurse is to look in the eyes of Satan himself”

Give us a heads up when you’re on your deathbed looking for a little comfort.


44 posted on 10/12/2009 1:12:44 PM PDT by Sparko (Barack Hussein Obama: Mmm, mmm, mmm... Peace Prize. Now no one is equal to Me in My Sight.)
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To: don-o; Lurker; HiTech RedNeck
I will concede that if you live somewhere in a middle-of-nowhere Red state, and are surrounded by 100% Christian people [maybe deep in the backwoods of Idaho, or Alaska, or Nebraska], then it's POSSIBLE that you might get some Christian types working Hospice [although even there I seriously doubt it].

But if you get anywhere near Blue America [which is going to include about 99% of all major medical centers], then you will indeed be looking at "Kim Jong Il? Hitler? Stalin? Jeffrey Dahmer? Charles Manson?" working in Hospice.

I have witnessed it with my own eyes.

Pure, unadulterated evil.

Women who would strangle you, grind you up under their heels, and piss on your corpse if they thought for a second that they could get away with it.

45 posted on 10/12/2009 1:13:56 PM PDT by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ah, the classic Monty Python skit—updated for 2009!

Pensioner: “I’m not dead yet!”

Death Panel Doctor: “Ah! No! You’ll be stone dead in a moment!”

Pensioner: “I think I’ll go for a walk!”

Death Panel Doctor: “C’mon. Can’t ye do us a favor?”

Hospice Admin: “I’ve taken two from you this week!”

Pensioner: “I feel happy! I feel hap—!”

*Thunk*

Death Panel Doctor: “Thanks. Much obliged.”

Hospice Admin: “No trouble at all. See you next week!”


46 posted on 10/12/2009 1:15:20 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It is happpening here, daily.


47 posted on 10/12/2009 1:15:43 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

I witnessed your “rare” event happen in a Chicago collar county.


48 posted on 10/12/2009 1:19:27 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
You really need to get out more. And if you really are some kind of a 'Special Agent' do us all a favor and turn in your badge and weapon.

Thanks in advance.

49 posted on 10/12/2009 1:19:38 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker

Indeed the people who made penicillin are guilty of blasphemy!


50 posted on 10/12/2009 1:20:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: cajungirl

To be clear. I think Hospice is wonderful for those with terminal illness who consent and know what it is.

But I have personally seen older people, placed in Hopice without consent by people with powers of medical attorney who have died, not well and without immediatly terminal illness. The requirement for Hospice is that you have six months or less of expected life. THat covers alot of people who are older and sometimes they die needlessly.

Just my opinion. But I have seen it.


51 posted on 10/12/2009 1:21:07 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Indeed the people who made penicillin are guilty of blasphemy!

No doubt. And all those cancer researchers are going straight to Hell for interfering in "God's Domain".

52 posted on 10/12/2009 1:21:26 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker

Yes, we must not ever “unnaturally” extend life or cheat death!


53 posted on 10/12/2009 1:22:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bump


54 posted on 10/12/2009 1:23:41 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: cajungirl

The system is easily abusable, and if the appropriate nods and winks are there, it will be abused. How the heck did Terri Schiavo get into a hospice with this “six months death” rule, for one thing? She was there for years before the ghouls seriously addressed their goal of having her snuffed.


55 posted on 10/12/2009 1:24:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Coming to a death panel near you.


56 posted on 10/12/2009 1:25:07 PM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: Lurker

Totally agree with you. My grandmother passed away 2 months ago from Alzheimers. We knew she was going down fast so we called in Hospice. The last 2 weeks of her life she stopped eating completely. She could no longer swallow. Sure, we could have put in a feeding tube, but what kind of life would that have been for her? She’d still be laying up in a bed in a nursing home, basically unconscience. That’s no way to live.


57 posted on 10/12/2009 1:25:25 PM PDT by sistabrista
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Now for the real bad news to you, OB, and your countrymen. From what I have seen, the health care being proposed by the dems for you and yours is not along the lines of the much maligned Canadian model. It isn’t even close to the horrific UK model. You should be so lucky. It is far closer to the pre WW II German model or the post WW II Soviet model.

My American friends on FR are in for a rude and painful shock if Obama and the gang are able to pull this off.

What do you see that makes it different. That would make it the model you describe?


58 posted on 10/12/2009 1:26:22 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Angry about where our country is going with the current regime at the helm.)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

Nonsense! The hospice nurses who took care of one of my family members in New Jersey did an excellent job of caring for her, right up until God took her home. And that’s in the lap of socialist NJ.


59 posted on 10/12/2009 1:27:39 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo; admin

SO YOU HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE SEP 23,2009!!
tRYING TO “RILE “ US UP! GO BACK TO DU!

TROLL ALERT!!
GET THE VIKING KITTIES!!


60 posted on 10/12/2009 1:28:11 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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