Posted on 03/25/2020 6:56:33 PM PDT by mairdie
Doctors across the country are deciding whether to adopt standard policies for not resuscitating patients with coronavirus in an effort to curb possible virus exposure for medical staff.
In Chicago, the Northwestern Memorial Hospital has been debating how to implement a universal do-not-resuscitate policy for infected patients.
The policy would void the wishes of the patient or their family members.
The death toll for Covid-19 in the United States has risen to 823 with more than 60,000 confirmed cases, and the burden of the pandemic continues to intensify in hospitals across the country.
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Similar discussions around not resuscitating have been taking place at the George Washington University Hospital in D.C.
They've decided, however, to continue using modified procedures to resuscitate patients with coronavirus - including putting plastic sheeting over patients to create a barrier.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Apologies: This is from Daily Mail. NOT from Gateway Pundit.
PING to not good policy
Hearing this,malpractice lawyers have visions of sugar plums dancing before their eyes.
Sounds like an Italian approach to “life.”
completely bullshit, naturally this garbage is from the Daily Mail ... any hospital that implemented a DNR without family approval would be sued out of existence ...
A lot of our medical people are leftist authoritarian technocrats at heart and would be very comfortable being a Nazi at the train station deciding who has enough life to use in the factory, and who needs to go to the gas chambers.
Hyperbole much?
This is not Ebola!
We must keep stoking the malestrom of panic!
could enact
Whillikers! One might think this “pandemic” is worse than it has been stated. I’m glad you corrected the source, or even I would start wearing that tin foil had stuck behind the bag of dog biscuits on top of the refrigerator.
What about the patients wishes?
If you want people to hide their symptoms and AVOID seeking medical treatment, that’s the precription.
We have all lives through flu seasons which have killed more. I don’t get it. We all die ,some sooner then others. I don’t see how this is even remotely serious when the democrats are just using it with their media friends to push socialism in this stupid bill which should just say get Your asses to work and stop being Pearl clutchers! It’s socialism packaged just right so we don’t realize it. The media made a plaque out of a flu to hurt the president it’s not a pandemic. It’s over hyped bull !
Exactly.
Yep, COVID-19 is no EBOLA....EBOLA has about 12,500 fatalities since 1976...COVID-19 has about 21,300 fatalities since December.
https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/history/distribution-map.html
The Corporate Progressive Media is very busy sowing these #FakeNews stories to stir division and confusion.
Death Panels.
Excellent point. My wife's mom is 96, is in assisted living. She was sharing a room, and the other woman had a "Do not resuscitate order" posted above the bed. She passed a couple months ago. I can understand such a posting for people bed-ridden with health problems in their 90s. Wife's mom is going strong with some short-term dementia but mobile and alert. Wife has a couple siblings who are looking forward to an inheritance, and it's a good thing my wife has power of attorney and health directive control instead of the greedy ones.
“Not very fond of this idea.”
Not sure it is true, knowing hospital procedures.
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