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  • Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders

    10/15/2011 8:08:55 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 23 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | Oct. 16, 2011 | Laura Donnelly and Alastair Jamieson
    Elderly patients are being condemned to an early death by hospitals making secret use of "do not resuscitate" orders, an investigation has found. The orders – which record an advance decision that a patient's life should not be saved if their heart stops – are routinely being applied without the knowledge of the patient or their relatives. On one ward, one-third of DNR orders were issued without consultation with the patient or their family, according to the NHS's own records. At another hospital, junior doctors freely admitted that the forms were filled out by medical teams without the involvement of...