Thursday, September 03, 2009

Yikes!

What else is there to say?

Sentenced to death on the NHS

Excerpts below - but please read the whole linked article:

Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today.

Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.

Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death “without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong."

As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients."

The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS.

Thanx to Mark Steyn and
National Review Online for the link above.
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