Like trying to change assisted suicide to assisted dying, dress it up how you want (& it says something that you have to) but it is what it is
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Quite. Few things annoy me more than the blatant word games played by those trying to protect their own reputation these days. And there are 2 excellent examples. They must think we're all daft.
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I don't think they give a flying fuck about us tbh.
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To use their language; I have seen zero evidence to suggest that any statistically significant fucks whatsoever have been given, flying or otherwise.
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My wife died and for the last few days she was not in pain but could barely breathe (lung mets) and was in a state of terrible distress and fear. I begged the doctors to give her something to make the end quicker and easier. You can’t judge until you’ve been there.
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I totally understand that. For me, this is about consent. It's one thing to request/agree to such a treatment plan, but entirely another to have a life-ending intervention imposed upon you without your consent. The patient should be at the heart of all of this, imho.
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That is true however we need to get a sense of proportion. It’s right that the patient and the family should be at the centre of care but doctors helping people have a pain free death is not the same as murder.
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It's not murder if that's what the patient wants, of course. But it may well be murder if done without consent, imho. Cases where patients had no terminal diagnosis particularly concern me. Ones where a falsely applied terminal diagnosis is later exposed, concern me even more.
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No one is suggesting that’s what happened here. These cases were all in end of life care.
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That's not my understanding. This was a rehabilitation ward. I believe several who were killed by this intervention were not in end of life care - until it was imposed upon them. A broken hip for example, is obviously not in itself terminal. And Gosport is just 1 example, btw.
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We agree on that. I still think is a complicated area though.
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It also makes me wonder what impact this will have on the
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I'm sure you're right.
#assisteddying relies heavily on trust in clinicians - trust which is rapidly evaporating, imho. My own experience taught me that the consenting process is (still) open to abuse, which was enough reason alone to oppose the bill. This only adds fuel.
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Death making circa early 20th century...
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