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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

An Amazing Video of a Living, First Trimester Unborn Baby

Posted on January 15, 2019 by David E Smith

Recently, I saw an amazing video in a post on the Nurses&Midwives4Life Ireland Facebook page showing a living, first trimester baby on a surgical field. The baby was moving its’ tiny head and limbs remarkably like a newborn baby. The image was both beautiful and heartbreaking since this little one could not survive.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abortion, Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, ectopic pregnancy, grief, Jonathan Van Maren, law, medical, Nurses&Midwives4Life, 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