Posted on 09/30/2012 3:19:54 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
Every pro-lifer needs to be up to speed on this subject.
I figure natural law will be declared a “hate crime” before too long, sadly.
From conception to natural death.
More than once I have laughed with them about how they "fooled the experts."
Obamacare's Palliative End of Life Optimum Serenity Initiative (PELOSI) questioned.
Should that “basic care” stuff be in Obamacare?
"Just give 'em a pill."
Old people never die, they just get in the way.
Obamacare MMMM, MMMM, MMM!
Death Panels are the key to fixing Social Security and Medicare funding. Knock 10 yrs off the lifespan and voila things look great.
(No Democrat will admit to this.)
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| Series Name: | The Good Fight | |
| Host: | Barbara McGuigan with Dr. Brian Kopp | |
| Date Produced: | 8/18/2012 | |
| Description: | St. Gianna Beretta Molla introduces our show today. Dr. Kopp talks to us about Hospice Care and necessity of a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, and his Catholic Hospice Care initiative
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If you don’t believe in euthanasia, go to:
http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/willtolive/StatesList.html
Will to Live
Choose your state and follow the instructions.
Also, give a copy to your doctor.
I am increasingly of the mind that medical people in the US are losing the trust of their patients, because of the dilution of their Hippocratic oath.
The solution to this is not to seek the redemption of American medical personnel, but to subcontract to medical people who are not ethically tainted. In this case, in Mexico.
Mexican health care is not terrible if you have some money. Much less money than you need in the US. Add to this that they still have a culture of respect for the elderly, and they generally reject the culture of death.
Despite any reservations we might have about quality or technology of care, the bottom line is extraordinary: the best physician in the world is no good if he wants to kill you.
Even a mediocre doctor who wants to save life is better than a good one who has rationalized away the preservation of life. If you see a cross on the wall of a clinic, you are safer than if you do not.
As the health care proxy for six elderly relatives let me suggest something to everyone: spend a few minutes and discuss how you wish to die. Because its going to happen.
The folks that work in hospice are angels on earth, and they will help you navigate this course.
And, if you are letting another relative carry this burden for you—and you know who you are—then shut up with your opinions. Get involved or move to the back of the bus. Visiting hours at the funeral home are not the place to have this discussion.
Most of this is true. I have been involved, in the course of my practice, with end-of-life care and terminal illness since 1976.
There ARE evangelists of death, who use people’s reasonable fear of suffering to extend the scope of their activities. Their power is increasing. Patients at the end of their lives ARE vulnerable to manipulation, and “surrogates” sometimes act out of base motives, mostly for financial gain.
I believe direct killing of patients should remain illegal, mostly to block further expansion of the so-called “doctor-assisted-suicide” movement.
However, it remains true that no real doctor (one actually engaged in the care of a patient, especially a patient that the doctor treated for many years) has ever been convicted of a crime under these circumstances, although a few have been indicted.
And this is as it should be. In thirty-six years of attending the dying, I have experienced, twice, cases that would challenge your position on what is permissible and impermissible. This is quite rare, but it is not nonexistent.
It is for this reason that the lay jury is an appropriate safeguard of both the public, and the profession.
You are displaying your ignorance of how hospice works. I suggest that you do more than “see them around.”
Hospice workers can keep someone alive just by giving them more attention and a little TLC. It’s not always a death sentence, and the hospice workers are the happiest folks when that happens.
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