If you wish to avoid this...... write a health directive today, name one
or more agents/proxies, talk to your family, make and distribute
multiple copies, consider a tattoo
Paddy
David Jobson wrote:
>>I see that a nurse has appeared in court on charges of killing four pts "to
>>free up beds", allegedly. Accroding to the radio she was so good that her
>>Trust managers comended her on her effective bed managment! U couldn't make
>>it up.
>>Come to think of it, not such a bad idea..........
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>Its gonna be interesting when more of the defensive details come out,
>but my guess is this is going to rebound ++++++++, and masterly
>inaction and diamorphine are going to get even rarer.
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>To-night radio 4 talked about a 91 year old who had already been
>in hospital 3 months and had become dehydrated ...................... well
>when that is me I sure as hell don't want to be pushed lots of fluids
>orally or intravenously.
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>They did that to my father in spite of contrary instructions, and
>he lived another four years with dense hemi and enough understanding
>to know that he didn't have any useful brain left. Condoms, manual
>removals, just about fed himself, couldn't shave, two to get to
>wheel chair etc. etc. He tried manfully to cover
>it up, but spent his last years being beautifully kept alive in a nursing
>home whilst he and my mother cried most days for 4 years in spite of
>both taking Anti-depressants.
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>Oh, yes . The co-op rushed him to hospital three times for vague arrhythmias!
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>And when he had his last CVA my sister (non-medical) wanted to hire an extra
>nurse to feed him extra fluids every few minutes - she accepted that that would only
>prolong what was going to happen.
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>Maybe this nurse didn't have the backing of her staff on where she
>set the line, but in the long run this case is going to harm care and patients
>and leave nurses and doctors looking over their shoulders even more.
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>Just who is it going to help? Relatives? Her Colleagues?
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>Oh I am so glad I have just retired!
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>David Jobson
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