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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (2391)	10/27/2007 5:38:48 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

re: As you know, I'm caring for my dad, who is under the hospice model where malpractice considerations are minimal, if present at all. No one will sue if the patient dies. While I'm still identifying some waste, it's trivial compared to a non-hospice scenario. My mother died under hospice care. I remember she was in miserable pain... and the doctors would not prescribe narcotic pain killers to a woman who was obviously dying, because they were "addictive". Hospice came in and said to the doctors "fuk you, prescribe it or we will find someone who will". It changed everything... suddenly the whole family could communicate and the end was at least a family experience. On the other side of the coin I remember the day when the doctors said we could feed my dying mother through tubes, and extend her life. And I said "of course we will do that" and the Hospice people said "well, then we are gone, and they will take her off the drugs. We know that she is settled with this being the end of her life, and you said that you were". A horrible moment. But my mother died pain free, telling old stories about her youth. Hospice is one of my favorite charities.