Ping!
The secularization of hospitals has made us a sick nation spiritually and physically.
“I’ve generally thought it a bit extreme to describe us as heading towards “death panels” and other large horrors in the current reforms of medicine. After hearing from an impassioned speaker about POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), I’m not so sure. I am sure that we need to be extremely vigilant about all such programs. POLST is billed as a more effective way for people nearing the end to express their exact wishes about choices of treatments. But good Catholic doctors have seen – and worry about – how in fact this system is being used to limit treatment of the elderly without a doctor ever having spoken to a patient about his or her wishes. And they’re being warned about subtle ways these deceptive programs are being insinuated into private medical practices.”
Where has this guy been for the past 40 years? These practices have been instituted in Hospice for a long time. The “end of life” shot is being given earlier and earlier.
How do Catholic institutions propose to fight the IPABs? Yes—these ARE Death Panels.
Sarah Palin (an evangelical) and Glenn Beck (a Mormon) have warned us about these government intrusions for years and years.
Looks like some of the Catholics are behind the curve here.
bkmk