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When Palliative Care Goes Horribly Wrong
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.
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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
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