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To: Zhang Fei

Never met one. I would suspect most of the “bad ones” would come the liberal side of the medical community (the AMA, for example) - and as cranky as our ED MDs are, they are personally righteous men and women - or as righteous as mankind is ....

There is a huge difference between “informing” and “encouraging”. Same is true of “facts” and “embellishments”. There is also a gigantic gulf between “routinely’ and ‘pockets’ of this. The culture of a hospital is not different than the culture of any other organization - some hospitals suck - most don’t.

While we’re on it - this came from “research” and I have no idea the agenda of those that did the “research”. I have very little patience for hype and “authors” trying to get attention - my experience, 38 years, is 180 degrees from the claims of this hack.


38 posted on 03/28/2018 4:27:31 PM PDT by gnawbone (When do we get justice in the District of Corruption ...?)
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To: gnawbone

From the article:


At top medical centers including Stanford University School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and University of Minnesota Medical School, half of doctors (46%) misinterpret DNRs to mean patients want end of life or comfort care only.

DNRs are dangerous for patients with pneumonia, trauma, strokes, vascular problems and other treatable conditions, according to studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. An analysis of California hospitals published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that patients had higher death rates in hospitals that encourage DNRs. Amazingly, these hospitals worried that their higher death rates lowered their Medicare quality rankings and reimbursements. They wanted the ranking method changed.


43 posted on 03/28/2018 4:38:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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