The killing of seniors has been going on, surreptitiously, for years. About ten years ago, I received a call from an emergency room doctor in NJ, where my mother was in the Methodist Manor. He said that she had had a massive brain stem stroke and would not recover. He wanted permission to put her on a morphine drip and remove the breathing tube. The doctor had already called all the family on the east coast, but they were all at church, and my sister’s eleven year old son, said no.
I said no, also, not until I see for myself. The doctor argued with me, telling me that my mother was 89 years old and had lived a good long life, that the precious medical dollars needed be reserved for younger more vital people. I still said, wait until I get there.
The next day, as I stood at my mother’s bedside, I found her bruised badly, up and down her arms and both arms tied to boards and restrained. I spoke to my mother and she immediately tried to wake up and respond. I told the nurse that she wasn’t in a coma and asked why she was bruised. The nurse said that she had been trying to pull out the breathing tube and the IV and that they had to restrain her. She was drugged, so she was having trouble opening her eyes, but otherwise she was ok. She did have some problems with her speech, but the final diagnosis was that she did not have a stroke, at all.
My sister in law is a nurse. She says the doctors who support "eliminating the useless eaters" (socialists) refer to them as "Exit patients". They're considered a "nuisance."
Eva,
I’m so sorry for your mother’s suffering. Unnecessary suffering!
And this is often the way it happens in Europe: under the radar, and with plausible deniability.
The government doesn’t “force” doctors to do this kind of crap in socialized medicine. It just sets up the rules and tilts the playing field so that they have little choice but to make life and death decisions on the basis of their own bottom line.
The Hippocratic Oath used to say:
I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.
But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.
I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.
In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.
But the AMA and socialist doctors didn’t like the restrictions against abortion and euthanasia, so they altered it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
The more these depraved people “redefine” morality, the more evil society becomes.