Posted on 10/11/2009 8:10:00 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor
AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.
Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.
Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.
Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.
Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”
Fenton was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. Although Ball acknowledged that her mother was very ill she was astonished when a junior doctor told her she was going to be placed on the plan to “make her more comfortable” in her last days.
Ball insisted that her mother was not dying but her objections were ignored. A nurse even approached her to say: “What do you want done with your mother’s body?”
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Can you say “Death Panel”?
Another socialized medicine horror story!
AuschwitzCare aka Pelosi/Reid DeathCare
Obama’s plan to save Social Security and Medicare involves the use of this plan
We can't keep living with these people or this mental illness of liberalism.
appalling
If this story appeared in an American paper, the title would be "Daughter Saves Mom, 80, Left By Doctors to Starve"
I doubt it’s about killing white people, specifically. After all, the socialists love abortion, which kills far more black kids than whites. It could, however, be about killing old people because they tend to be a little less pliant and gullible than younger folks (though the AARP, among others, has been working on changing that for quite a while now), or it could just be about liberal hatred of anyone who’s inconvenient to them in any way.
Hunton, all I can say to someone who does not realize Marxists play racism for power against whites, you are not reading and listening or you are not beleiving what you see, read and hear.
I know blacks kids are hit by abortion but that is mainly because of behavior that results in out of wedlock pregnancy. I also know whites are going to be targeted for death in rationed health care and they get no say in their socialist assigned deaths. Blacks can use birth control or choose not to kill their babies. Whites will not have a choice - they are chosen - openly - for an early death in rathioned health care.
That scenario is frightening.
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