…ypical for a physician to perform a tracheostomy to increase the patient’s comfort compared to a tube down the throat. This should be clarified on the form. 18) What do you believe are some of the reasons why more people are not having the conversation on advance care planning? It’s possible that some people have the same impression that health care providers often have, that advance care planning is primarily about refusing life sustaining treatm…
…tal has changed course and is now taking about inserting the feeding tube. http://youneedacat.tumblr.com/post/46772164821/so-i-get-woken-up-at-seven-someting-innthenmorning (Amanda’s tumblr blog) Same place but turned out that was a program designed to limit employee web surfing that ended up on the wrong wifi. But this place sucks. Most hospitals do. Understaffed even when there’s good people. Messed up. Too sick to explain this moment. But cultu…
…donors and organ recipients may have conflicting interests. They may be uncomfortable recommending the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for one patient and hoping to obtain an organ for another. (Steinbrook, pp. 210-211.) The public comment notice acknowledges that the previous proposal in 2011 generated comments urging revisions to: Explicitly endorse in the Proposal the longstanding ethical safeguard that the donor family not be approach…
…e in pain. In many cases, there is no single, clear reason. – See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/lets_put_this_pet_theory_to_sleep#sthash.iGZcP18q.dpuf the statistics on the euthanasia rates of animal rates in shelters paint a grim picture. The reasons owners abandon them there aren’t very pretty either: * They are abandoned and unwanted. According to the American Humane Association, “56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter anima…
…e-deaths-due-coronavirus-2615-new-cases/ https://ncd.gov/sites/default/files/NCD_Medical_Futility_Report_508.pdf Ibid. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/18/opinion/disabililty-community-will-fight-any-attempt-discriminate-over-scare-medical-resources/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-ventilators-triage-disability.html https://dredf.org/the-illegality-of-medical-rationing-on-the-basis-of-disability/ https://www.bostonglobe.c…
