[CobaltBlue]

The thing that amazed me the most was how many hospital employees (nurses, techs) were in favor of simple DNRs. I guess it makes less work for them. If someone has a problem, just let them die, and have another cup of coffee. Unlike doctors, they don't get paid extra for taking care of extra patients.

[wagglebee]

I understand completely why certain people (generally ones who have had multiple heart attacks or strokes, and very often elderly widowers) have DNR's, and I don't fault them at all. However, the vast majority of people who need to be resuscitated make full recoveries and go on to completely normal lives, it's sickening to think of a person in average health having a DNR.

[Pondman88]

Nurses, hospital workers...I think they just want to see you die, They are pretty immune to death, and probably figure most people are just gonna kick off anyways.....
plus they do see alot of suffering.

[Mark in the Old South]

DNR are not so much the problem. Even Catholic doctrine allows that in cases of forlorn hope. There was a time the Medical community resisted the notion of DNR's. They were intended to prevent people from being on all sorts of extraordinary life support. By that I mean respirators, heart and lung machines, kidney dialysis etc. The feeding tube as life support that is a new one. Shows how twisted we have become. A feeding tube is easier than cooking and spoon feeding someone. It just boils down to "die already I want to get on with my life and the hospital wants the bed for a more profitable patient"

[thulldud]

I just had an MRI last week and among the things I had to read and sign before treatment, the radiology center included a form which stated that they do not honor DNR directives.

You collapse on them, they start CPR and call the EMS.

Course, it is a radiology lab, and they aren't expecting to keep people around once their tests are done.