Posted on 10/22/2012 7:17:09 AM PDT by SumProVita
Doctors across America are sick. A new and desperate plight has surfaced in emergency rooms across the nation for both patients and doctors alike. The following blog by one valiant doctor speaks for thousands of doctors being forced to go against their natural instincts and abilities to allow further hospital care and re-admit patients.
Effective October 2012, doctors at hospitals across the land are being forced by the Obama administration to break their Hippocratic Oath. Obama's revamped Medicare has now begun forcing doctors at hospitals to turn their backs on patients no matter how critical their need for re-admittance. Obamacare has activated a mandate through Medicare that will cost thousands of lives and serves as the precursor to Obama's inhumane and authoritarian Death Panels
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotpost.us ...
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth................”
Hip replacements mean extended quality lifespan. Some folks need them at 45. How very principled of you to condemn your own parents to a limited lifespan w/disability to ensure that however long they do live, they are miserable.
I hope your children take the lesson to heart.
Your post reminds me of the recent experience of friends. They took full responsibility of aged parents, who were demented and in care. After the deaths, the sibs who did nothing groused about how expensive the nursing home had been and how it had diminished their inheritance and stated our friends should not have allowed the parents to spend their own assets for their own care.
If you have $100K left in your bank account, do you buy that extra two months of life for your mother and lose your house? Do you tell your kids they can’t have the $30K for the last year of the degree because grandma needs to lie in a bed for two more months? You can’t have it all. Life is callous. You have to make choices. But nobody wants to. Everybody dies. I for one do not intend to rob my grandchildren of opportunity so I can draw breath in bed for some additional time. I think that is the ultimate display of callousness.
“at some point they have a right, heck, they have a DUTY to say “enough.””
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I certainly hope it’s won’t be done with YOUR mother...or your child.
I believe that people should provide for their own health care and I believe in assisting those who HONESTLY cannot do so. However, NO human and NO government has either the right nor the duty to play God.
Hospitals here are building and expanding like crazy (Tri-Cities, WA).
I provide my family’s health care at significant cost to my paycheck. In fact, if there is such a thing, we’re over insured.
When I’m old, in pain, and have no prospects except lingering death and bankrupting my family, I’ll go quietly. I have already signed a living will. So has my wife. So has my Mom.
I can say that the number of hospitals nationally has declined substantially since 2008. Last I heard it had dropped from near 8000 to around 5700 today. I used to sell to Hospitals nationally before I retired so to speak.
He is filth incarnate! He voted for infanticide four times!
My oh my...isn’t it strange that the doctors are upset by all of it?
I would NEVER sign a living will.
http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2012/02/dangers-of-living-will.html
http://www.pregnantpause.org/euth/soundgoo.htm
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