(Snippets from the frontline)
Death panels exist
Our mother is in her nineties and went to the emergency room for the stomach flu. Before we arrived, the ER had already put her on hospice. Fortunately, my brother and I are palliative and hospice physicians, so the near-fatal misdiagnosis was corrected and the IV morphine stopped.
If we were not specialists in this field, she would be dead. What about families that don’t have someone in the profession? How many have died?
Death panels are making these decisions.
Hospitals often target elder patients funneling them from the ICU into palliative then end-of-life hospice care without medical justification.
Insurance companies stamp “Denied” on testing, hospitalization, and services despite a patient’s doctor plea for further care.
Pharmaceuticals companies inflate prices beyond the reach of the average citizen, as they tell physicians who gets what medicine.
Medical decisions are being made by healthcare businesses resulting in the demise of patients for the sole purpose of greed and profit, yet justified as a means to rein in costs.
Death panels exist, and must be exposed and confronted.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
On the other hand, in our litigenous and death-fearing society, we also have many people who are in multi-system organ failure indefinitely with very little hope for improvement using a large portion of the limited health-care resources that are becoming more scarce.
the Doctor is the one should decide not insurance companies are some businessman trying to keep cost down ,thank you for sharing information
Everyone dies, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I don’t want to be in a hospice care bed in my 80s or 90s. Or in an ICU with Docs trying to save my life. I want to be outta here, no longer a burden on my family and friends and the system. If it comes down to it I’ll move to Switzerland and have assisted suicide.