- Professor says doctors use 'death pathway' to euthenasia of the elderly
- Treatment on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours
- Around 29 per cent of patients that die in hospital are on controversial 'care pathway'
- Pensioner admitted to hospital given treatment by doctor on weekend shift
Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.
He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in hospitals across the country.
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10 comments:
Thank goodness for gubment run healthcare!
What till Obama care takes effect!
That's the best you can say? People are being 'helped' to die and you want to bring politics into it?
Good grief.
1023-These people aren't choosing to die, they're being ordered to. Big difference buddy.
1023-These people aren't choosing to die, they're being ordered to. Big difference buddy.
June 22, 2012 3:49 AM
What the heck are you talking about? Wake up a little bit and get back to me, buddy.
My first thought was that these were people who were going to die soon anyway, but then I read the comments attached to the article and all I can say is, I'm shocked.
There's Hospice care and then there's putting people down like an animal. What is decribed in the article is putting someone down, imo.
I witnessed this in person.
Ever wonder how the loved one was able to hang on just until after you made the long trip to get there?
They shoot a little extra pain killer intot he IV right after all the family arrives and presto, Grandma slips away.
Great, more proof that these medical professionals knows how to take care of you, your children, and your parents better than anything else in the world. I've hit the mentality that if you walk into a doctors office, something is wrong with you, and that's just getting a routine cleaning at the dentists' office. I personally would lie in a ditch and bleed to death before I let PRMC donate me a pint of blood.
818-Read the article by the doctor that witnessed it first hand, buddy. They attempted to put down a patient of his that had pneumonia. Doctor came back in on a monday, changed the orders, and guy WALKED out of the hospital 2 weeks later. It's not "Oh granny is terminal, it's better for her". It's "Screw that old bag, if she came in here for cough medicine, we might as well save some bucks and end it for her".
5:19 PM
I did read the article. Whatever that has to do with what you said or trying to say, buddy, I don't know.
Maybe you're confused by my use of the word 'helped'.
I was being sarcastic, that's why the hash marks are on each end. So people would recognize that.
I guess it just slipped past you bud. But that's ok. I'm sure a lot of things slip by you.
Have a nice weekend buddy. Peace.
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