Tag Archives: Compassion & Choices

When Palliative Care Goes Horribly Wrong

Posted on May 6, 2019 by David E Smith

As I have written before, I was almost fired for refusing to increase a morphine drip “until he stops breathing” on a patient who continued to breathe after his ventilator was removed. The doctors mistakenly presumed he had a massive stroke and thus was irreparably brain-damaged. I was told at that time that giving and increasing the morphine even though the patient showed no discomfort was merely “comfort care” that would “prevent pain”. I knew it was euthanasia.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Assisted Suicide, Barbara Coombs Lee, Compassion & Choices, Compassion and Choices, Dame Cicely Saunders, euthanasia, law, medical ethics, palliative care, Sophie Druenne, The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act | Comments Off

The New Federal Conscience and Religious Freedom Division

Posted on March 2, 2018 by David E Smith

As a nurse threatened with termination for refusing to participate in an unethical health care decision years ago, I have a special interest in conscience rights for health care professionals.

Over the past several decades, new threats to conscience rights have widened from refusing to participate in abortions to other deliberate death decisions like withdrawal of feedings from people with serious brain injuries, VSED (voluntary stopping of eating and drinking), terminal sedation and physician-assisted suicide.

Thus, I am pleased that the Trump administration recently announced the new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the department of Health and Human Services’ …

Posted in Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abortion, Assisted Suicide, Compassion & Choices, conscience rights, medical ethics, Planned Parenthood | Comments Off

Swedish Citizen Unmasks a Main Physician-assisted Suicide Propaganda Point

Posted on January 19, 2018 by David E Smith

Oregon, the first US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, is routinely promoted by advocates as having the model law for assisted suicide. Now the debate has come to Sweden.

Posted in Media Watch, Sanctity of Life | Tagged Assisted Suicide, Compassion & Choices, Craig New, euthanasia, Fabian Stahle, law, media, Oregon Health Authority, Swedish National Council of Medical Ethics, Tyranny | Comments Off