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Thread on Texas Futile Care law by monomaniac. Thanks, Coleus.<p>.......................<p><body> <p>Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- <font color="blue">The Texas state Senate has approved a bill that would revise a law that allows families just 10 days to find care for a loved one when a medical facility refuses to provide continued lifesaving medical treatment. Under the measure, families would get a minimum of 21 days to locate a medical facility that will care for the patient. </font></p> <p>Current state law allows medical facilities to determine that a patient is too far gone to receive further care and they can tell families that they will stop lifesaving medical treatment in 10 days.<br> </p> <p><font color="blue" size="4"><b>~Snip~</b></font></p> <p></p> <p><font color="blue">Those provisions will ensure that patients similar to Terri Schiavo who are marked "futile" by hospital ethics committees can continue to receive food and water while the family searchers for another medical facility.</font></p> </body> <p> <font color="#ff0000" size="4"> <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834302/posts?page=3#3">Texas Senate Approves Bill Reforming Futile Care Law to Help Patients</a> <br> </font> <p> 8mm<p>
387 posted on
05/17/2007 4:30:05 AM PDT by
8mmMauser
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To: All; Coleus; monomaniac; BykrBayb; Lesforlife
Hmm, let me try that one again...
Thread on Texas Futile Care law by monomaniac. Thanks, Coleus.
Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- The Texas state Senate has approved a bill that would revise a law that allows families just 10 days to find care for a loved one when a medical facility refuses to provide continued lifesaving medical treatment. Under the measure, families would get a minimum of 21 days to locate a medical facility that will care for the patient.
Current state law allows medical facilities to determine that a patient is too far gone to receive further care and they can tell families that they will stop lifesaving medical treatment in 10 days.
~Snip~
Those provisions will ensure that patients similar to Terri Schiavo who are marked "futile" by hospital ethics committees can continue to receive food and water while the family searchers for another medical facility.
Texas Senate Approves Bill Reforming Futile Care Law to Help Patients
8mm
388 posted on
05/17/2007 5:37:39 AM PDT by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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