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Jim Thompson

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 01:47:29 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Fascism at its finest...

Repeat After Me: There Are No Death Panels in Socialized Heathcare...

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/291725.php

==quote==
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the
terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to
death.
Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical
staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn
and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.

But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving,
the experts warn.

As a result the scheme is causing a "national crisis" in patient care, the
letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including
Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of
London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St
Luke's cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.

"Forecasting death is an inexact science," they say. Patients are being
diagnosed as being close to death "without regard to the fact that the
diagnosis could be wrong.

"As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and
friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients."

The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association
estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on
the NHS.
==quote==

A few years ago Florida had a case of "denial of fluids and food" to a
patient who was not even near death. I still think you, Jim, were on the
wrong side of that one.

That was the comatose woman whose husband wanted to pull the plug? Not
the government, right? The husband had a medical power of attorney,
right? Not the government, right?

...Jim Thompson
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