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To: steve8714

In conversations with various EMT’s I’ve generally come to the conclusion that if your condition is absolutely hopeless there is a significant percentage of them who will not force you to stick around in senseless agony, and Lord bless every one of them.

Hospices face this situation almost daily - Mrs. Dementia goes into a coma with half her organs failing and she’s already on enough pills that she rattles when she walks, when she CAN walk at all. None of her family contacts on record can be reached. What to do? Rack up an ungodly medical bill on the faint chance she comes back to ‘normal’, which for her is a 5-minute memory due to severe Alzheimer’s and wheezing for every breath...or bump the morphine up a notch and let the poor soul pack up for heaven already?


30 posted on 06/11/2016 12:28:44 AM PDT by Laser_Ray (Another nifty idea)
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To: Laser_Ray

What about ICU for a yo=yo patient on dialysis?


33 posted on 06/11/2016 9:59:31 AM PDT by steve8714 (Keep rioting, it gets Trump elected.)
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