The Government loves you and wants to "help" you so you can be safe and well "cared" for (now I know this story comes from the UK but it is a country in the World, it really does exist) continuing, because the British Government care for old folk so much they have invented the Liverpool Care Pathway. Although slightly Orwellian in name the "care pathway" is what Government deems best for old "will die one day" ex taxpayers.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...6908-22893226/
Family fury after dad put on controversial death plan without consent
Feb 2 2011 Lachlan Mackinnon
Doc 'didn't tell us he'd put dad on death plan'
An angry nurse has told the Daily Record how the NHS put her dad on the "pathway to death" - without his family's consent.
We revealed yesterday, left, that patients' leaders are deeply concerned ? about the use of the "Liverpool Care Pathway" in Scots hospitals.
It's designed to ease the suffering of patients judged by doctors to be at the end of their lives, and can involve withdrawing food and fluids and giving heavy doses of sedatives. Starving them and giving them a chemical cosh.
One of the drugs used, midazolam, is offered to US Death Row inmates before they are executed.
Some families say their relatives were put on the LCP when they still had a chance of life. Its all for the best, trust your loving mother (government)
And a 2008 study found that one in four families in 155 English hospitals weren't consulted before the LCP was used.
The nurse we spoke to accused medics at Glasgow's Stobhill Hospital of failing to speak to her family before deciding her 75-year-old dad should go on the Pathway.
She said her father, who had cancer, was admitted to hospital in December 2009. I hope they didn't expect a cure
And she said: "A doctor took one look at his notes and put him on the LCP without speaking to my family. They wrote him off." "here are the patients notes Doctor"..."Oh I see he's quite old isn't he hmmm, kill him!"
The nurse said the family took her dad home but he stayed on the sedatives.
And she said that when they demanded the drugs be stopped, he went "from being unable to eat or drink to sitting up in bed". Because he wasnt being slowly poisoned anymore.
He eventually died, in his bed, in February last year.
The nurse said: "If dad had stayed on midazolam, he would have lasted five days. They were speeding his death without explaining it to us." bit like murder then??
Scotland Patients Association chairwoman Margaret Watt has warned that the LCP "can be used to bring lives to a premature end". Which is the whole point of it.
She praised the Record for "highlighting growing concern" over the issue of consenthmm yes it would be nice to be asked about the death plan wouldn't it from families.
But the Scottish Government insist LCP cases are assessed every day. And some families we spoke to said the Pathway had helped their relatives die with dignity.(quickly)
One woman, whose husband died two weeks ago of a brain tumour at Edinburgh's Western General, said: "We were fully consulted in advance and throughout his treatment. I can't praise the staff highly enough.
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Old Mav realizes exactly some geta kick out off of killing old people RIGHT H*ll ???
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