During the last two months of life, Dorothy Glas endured so many blood tests her thin arms turned black and blue. The 85-year-old woman submitted to probes of her abdomen. Radiologists scanned her brain, kidneys, thyroid and heart. A psychiatrist screened her for depression. "My mother told him, 'Of course I'm depressed! I'm dying. How can you be happy?'" said her daughter, Meredith Snedeker of Hamilton Square. Glas withered to 80 pounds from an intestinal infection and, after a fall, entered the hospital in July for the final time, complaining of dizziness and a cut foot. The medicine revved up and doctors at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton ordered a flurry of tests: X-rays, CT scans, echocardiograms and scopes of her digestive tract....
A troubling abundance of care, Despite efforts, state's sick don't live longer
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Des Moines, IA (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll in Iowa not only shows Hillary Clinton losing support to Barack Oabama but it shows female Democrats prefer the pro-abortion Illinois senator over Clinton. The poll results are surprising given the fact that Emily's List, the wealthiest pro-abortion group in the nation, launched a major election effort on her behalf.
As LifeNews.com twice reported, Emily's List started a campaign last month to rally women voters in Iowa around Clinton.
Emily's List unveiled a new web site and promoted it with online via ads on leading search engines and on web sites women view such as those on yoga or health issues.
But a new Des Moines Register poll shows the campaign apparently isn't working.........
Pro-Abortion Group's Efforts Flop, Hillary Clinton Drops Among Iowa Women
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What are the chances that a hospital called Roberts Woods Johnson would run countless tests to make money at the same time causing the patient a lot of discomfort and perhaps in some sense, torture? If you do too many tests, who wouldn’t call it torture? Then the poor woman would want to die. All those diagnostic tests is pardon the expression, overkill. But, they are profitable and painful too.