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Topic: Now sick babies go on death pathway:
Doctor´s haunting testimony reveals
how children are put on
end-of-life plan |
Now sick babies go on death pathway:
Doctor´s haunting testimony reveals
how children are put on
end-of-life plan
Daily Mail [UK], by Sue Reid and Simon Caldwell
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Posted By:Fiesta del sol, 11/29/2012 6:28:27 AM
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| Sick children are being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in hospices on controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life regime the Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only elderly and terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice of withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young patients as well as severely disabled newborn babies.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/29/2012 6:33:33 AM (No. 9038854)
O brave new world,
That has such people in´t!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dittohead, 11/29/2012 6:44:12 AM (No. 9038866)
Shades of Sarah Palin!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
raphaela, 11/29/2012 6:55:32 AM (No. 9038880)
This is called palliative care in the U.S. They do it to hospice patients all the time. It´s horrendous.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
escaped commieny, 11/29/2012 7:02:50 AM (No. 9038892)
It´s posted on the Main page Lobby at the Connection (H/T Bob) , I just finished reading all the comments after the main article. Now that zerocare is the Law of the Land, we can expect this here. Needing a ´camera´ sent down my throat to the stomach, I was denied food and water for 26 hours, a wet wash cloth on my lips was the only thing allowed, I can not describe the pain the lack of hydration was. I can only say, what these panels are doing is torture and these babies can´t speak.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
escaped commieny, 11/29/2012 7:06:44 AM (No. 9038896)
Please excuse second post, #3 posted while I was typing. Hospice tried this on my Mom, my sister and I spoon fed her, gelled milk, to prevent the pain. Their idea of ´comfort care´ was a bed, no nourishment. Comfort was up to the family to ease the pain.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby, 11/29/2012 7:06:49 AM (No. 9038897)
Rejoice! Ye faithful to Obamacare! This is what we will be facing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
youngtexan, 11/29/2012 7:22:25 AM (No. 9038913)
sickening.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dallasobg, 11/29/2012 7:43:10 AM (No. 9038932)
Palliative care is comfort and pain control without futile treatment. Starvation and dehydration do not fall in this category. I fear we are heading in this direction.
I am a physician at a large university hospital and "care pathways" are being written and will be part of every patient´s hospital course. We keep hearing about how adhering to these pathways will ensure payment. We will be going down a checklist based on the individual pathway. End of Life will most certainly be included. It will include everyone who is expected to die. Who will set the parameters and will they expand as funding dictates?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bamboozle, 11/29/2012 8:03:23 AM (No. 9038962)
This is exactly what happened in Germany even before the Nazi´s. ´Useless´ people were being killed off by the oh so civilized German doctors.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Timber Queen, 11/29/2012 8:51:56 AM (No. 9039043)
Terry Schivo (RIP). Its already here and has been for some time.
I specifically included in my Health Care Instructions that nutrition and hydration are minimal life needs - not medical intervention. I also quoted the relevent paragraphs from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, with the instruction that if my family and physician are unsure how to apply them they are to consult a Catholic priest. I let every doctor that treats me know that I am a practicing and devout Catholic. Their reation to that news usually decides if I continue under their care.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
A Balrog of Morgoth, 11/29/2012 9:21:00 AM (No. 9039095)
It feels more and more like the 1930s every day.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MsMontana, 11/29/2012 3:47:17 PM (No. 9039894)
I fail to see how anyone can call nutrition and hydration "life support" and mean it to be the same as a ventilator.
Withholding both are murder and torture as far as I am concerned.
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