"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across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.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."
This is the picture of government run health care ... and only part of it!
You may say that that would never happen here. Why not? The British are not stupid people nor do they simply have a disregard for human life. What about the Canadians, Russians, Chinese, French, and Cubans. Are they too stupid to avoid such "problems?" Of course not!
What we are witnessing is the end result of a mandated government system!
True, our medical system needs some corrections, but scrapping the whole system for one in which the government has the control is NOT a solution for which we should settle.
With an out-of-control Congress, an out-of-control administration, broken and bankrupt governmental systems, and a deficit that cannot be paid off by our grandchildren, the best action for our Congress to take is to DO NOTHING!
The simply cannot be trusted.
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