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Frisco Hospice Owner Urged Nurses to Overdose Patients So They Would Die Quicker, FBI Says

Comment: Note this quote from the article: “‘Aggregator cap’. Health care providers do not necessarily make more money for longer hospice stays. That’s because hospices are subject to an ‘aggregator cap’, which limits Medicare and Medicaid payments based...

Journal of Palliative Medicine: ‘Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying’ (aka: physician-assisted suicide)

[Comment: Unfortunately, some groups and individuals against physician-assisted suicide still cite hospice as the simple solution to physician-assisted suicide while some of us who have experience in hospice have warned for years about the progression of corrupting...

Amending Medicare: Concerns About the Proposed Advance Care Planning AspectsRule

Comments on the Proposed Rule to Amend Various Aspects of Medicare re: Reimbursing Medicare Providers for Advance Care Planning Counseling Sessions Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Room 445-G Hubert H. Humphrey...

Oregon’s End of Life Orders Document: POLST (2006)

POLST is being proposed in a number of states across the US. In North Carolina, the form has undergone pilot tests, and the North Carolina Medical Society is considering its adoption. The purpose of this letter is to: Review the history of POLST on a national level...

Terminal Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Supplemental Oxygen (2006)

First 150 words of the full text: An influential report released in 1983 defined life-sustaining therapies as “all health care interventions that have the effect of increasing the life span of the patient.”1 This definition is highly inclusive: aspirin for...

Stop Harvesting Organs after ‘Cardiac Death,’ Say MDs (2010)

A group of doctors have called on the medical community to cease harvesting organs from patients whose hearts have stopped pulsating, saying that doctors are misleading families to believe that the patient has died when in fact their loved one is still alive. The...

Study Shows Patients in Vegetative States Can Learn, Predicting Recovery (2009)

Brain-damaged patients who appear to have lost signs of conscious awareness might still be able to create new memories — showing signs of new neural networks and potential for partial recovery, a new study shows. In patients who have survived severe brain...

British Doctors Practicing “Slow” Euthanasia through Deep Sedation (2009)

Second Story: Sedation with Dehydration used as “Slow Euthanasia” UK Survey Reveals “Slow euthanasia by deep sedation” is a current reality in the British health care system, and not just a journalistic myth, a survey of UK doctors has revealed. The study found...

19-Year-Old Recovers as Doctors Start to Harvest Her Organs (2012)

The world of organ donation in Denmark was in turmoil. A documentary was aired which showed family members reacting in anguish to the news that their 19-year-old daughter was brain dead after a car accident, agreeing to donate her organs and allowing doctors to turn...

Belgium Pioneers Organ Donation from Euthanized Patients (2012)

The practice of transplanting organs from patients who die after voluntary euthanasia is becoming more common in Belgium. A leading specialist, Dirk Van Raemdonck, told a conference in Brussels recently that there had already been nine cases. A year ago, a team at a...

The Erosion of Ethics in Organ Transplantation (2012)

Comment: The basic principles are sound for anyone. N. Valko RN 2nd Comment, 2nd Nurse: Unless the donor is alive and can live with one organ (kidney for instance), and the transplant will not kill the donor, it is morally and ethically in question. Back in my 20s we...

Danish Teen Wakes From the “Dead” Just as Doctors Prepare to Harvest Her Organs (2012)

A teenage girl who had been stuck in a coma after a catastrophic car crash miraculously woke up just as doctors were about to declare her brain dead and harvest her organs. A teenage girl who had been stuck in a coma after a catastrophic car crash miraculously woke up...

A Very Real Story of “Direct Euthanasia” (2012)

This story is not unique. It is happening thousands of times a year. Please be aware of what is happening in some U.S. hospitals, nursing homes and Hospice. “I believe my mother was killed while in hospice care this August. Mother had congestive heart failure,...

As More Hospices Enroll Patients Who Are Not Dying, Questions About Lethal Doses Arise (2014)

The Hospice Industry is Booming, But Concerns Are Rising About Treatments for Patients Who Are Not Near Death. This story is part of an ongoing WashPost series on the hospice industry in America. Read part 1, part 2, and part 3. Clinard “Bud” Coffey, 77, a retired...

Use and Abuse of POLST Forms Expands (2015) / When “Doctor’s Orders” Mean Death (2014)

Use and Abuse of POLST Forms Expands “Physician’s Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment” (POLST) forms were designed as a tool for end-of-life planning. More simple in concept than an advance health care directive, durable power of attorney for health care, or living...

Dutch Doctors Use “Deep Sedation” to Hide Assisted Suicides

Dutch Doctors Use “Deep Sedation” to Hide Assisted Suicides The Lancet has just published an article purporting to show that euthanasia rates have not increased in the Netherlands since legalization in 2002. This news will probably be seized upon by enthusiasts for...