Daughter 'shocked' by dad's pro-death caregivers

[WanderAimlessly]

A very disterbing article:

**Daughter ‘shocked’ by dad’s pro-death caregivers
**Attitude shift follows $200 million campaign to ‘transform the culture of dying’
Posted: November 17, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Editor’s note: The following article is by Diana Lynne, author of a powerful, comprehensive book on Terri Schiavo’s life and death, entitled “Terri’s Story: The Court-Ordered Death of an American Woman.” This WND Books release is available at WorldNetDaily’s online store.

By Diana Lynne
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The daughter of a nursing home patient, who recently died under “suspicious” circumstances, mourns not only her father but her lost faith and trust in a health-care system she considers complicit in his death.

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[Karin]

One more reason to have an UPDATED Living Will & to also make sure your DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY is also UPDATED!

 

[Mom_of_one]

**This disgusts me. As a nurse and as a Catholic. :banghead: I am W-A-Y too disgusted right now to say anything else. **

 

[dafalax]

I would like to take this opportunity to promote the Loving Will as opposed to the Living Will because no matter how carefully you word it, the Living Will has loopholes that can allow caregivers to kill you anyway. I’d also like to state once more that the “right to die” quickly becomes the “obligation to die”. I mean, it hasn’t even taken one generation.

 

[oldfogey]

It really should not be surprising that the Culture of Death has transformed the medical profession. The attitude permeates physician’s attitudes from the time the patient is in the womb to the grave.

How many women, when the gynecologist has told them they were pregnant, were then asked, “So, are you going to have it, or abort?” (Message: Heck, I’ll kill the baby or deliver, whatever…) Or were told they might be high risk of a fetal abnormality, so she should have an amniocentesis, and then abort if they wanted?

And, yes, many physicians would just as soon hasten the death of a complex adult patient, than to keep them alive with dignity.

It truly is surprising that highly educated and for the most part innately very intelligent physicians can have swallowed the lie that neutrality between life and death is their proper role. They don’t realize that, to many patients and their families, their neutrality (and sometimes partiality toward death) breeds distrust and disrespect. Beware the white coat that walks into the room. If you don’t know them well, their biases might surprise you, or worse.

 

[dafalax]

I just gotta say, with my first pregnancy i was in a large city. When the nurse came in and verified my belief that i was pregnant, i was smiling. She still asked, “Did you want to be?” Now in a smaller town with my second pregnancy, my doctor walked in, didn’t even see my face and said, “I hear congratulations are in order!” We need more pro-life doctors, plain and simple.

 

[MaggieOH]

I do understand how the family must feel about the attitude displayed by the doctors and nurses in that nursing home. They seemed to have forgotten the real meaning of dignity by replacing that meaning with something akin to: attachment to a machine is always undignified and we must kill this person to make way for another patient.

It is as if these people have an unsatiated appetite for death. The more often a person dies out of neglect, the more often they want to neglect their patients so that they will end up dead.

What is worse is the way in which some doctors fail their patients by failing to properly diagnose their condition. This is what happened to my sister, who passed away on May 7 as a result of undiagnosed bone cancer. Her doctors failed to do the appropriate tests when she complained of back pain. That back pain turned out to be bone cancer. Earlier this year, when she could not eat or drink, the doctors failed to discover that she had cancer until 6 weeks before her death. It was a painful death due to dehydration and starvation because her body was shutting down and the doctors failed to recognize what was happening, until it was too late. She was too weak to undergo chemotherapy by the time her cancer was discovered. What irked me the most about her case is that the gastroenterologist turned around and told her to go home and drink plenty of fluid because the lining of her stomach was inflamed due to dehydration (duh - her body was rejecting the fluid, she could not drink). Some doctors need a reality check and they need to become more sympathetic to their patients. Since they have adopted the culture of death they have become like monsters waiting to gobble up those who are incapacitated or ill.