If this isn't sugar-coating death panels, mercy killing, & euthanasia, I'm not sure what is. How disgusting.
my experience which is working in hospitals for over 35 yrs is that more often than not its the families gunning for every concievable treatment, not the patients, and not the doctors....
we have families that feel guilty for ignoring mom or dad all those years and now are in that hospital room demanding it all.....
we do have some families that want mom or dad to die quickly...I mean some of them really want them gone....always asking...."how long " when no one can properly answer that....
but its always the docs isn't it...the docs or the hosptials...or the evil nurses ...or the Catholics...
Disagree. When an ethical doctor and his peers know that death is inevitable(within a certain time frame) I see nothing wrong with this approach. That was the deal with my 84 year old mother, who, dying of cancer was told that chemo would give her a year, while palliative care would give her six more or less pain free months. She lasted seven decent, coherent months that allowed her to make peace in her life instead of puking her guts out for a year.
They sometimes don't hesitate to demand every conceivable procedure for a few days more.
I wish they had an equal desire to find peace with their creator.
I watched family member go both ways. The one's who let nature have it's way tend to go happier.
In a free market system, the patient pays, and the doctor has a financial incentive to provide treatment.
In a “single payer” government system, the government pays. Treatment is then nothing but a cost center, and the incentive is to find every possible way to reduce the treatments provided.
I want a doctor working on the profit motive.
You’re right
In this country no one can force you to take a treatment unless in rare cases the dumb ass doctor goes to the courts...
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