7/26/14
Love always hopes.
How is our Health Care System? How can we improve it?
Below
is an article about a travesty of justice - here in the United States!! How
did this happen - what can we do to stop it from happening again?The following is an article from life and hope, a publication of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, volume 6 / 1st Edition / www.lifeandhope.com, pg. 8.
Nine
Years Ago My Sister
Terri
Schiavo was Dehydrated
and
Starved to Death
As Our Health Care System Continues to Worsen
by
Bobby Schindler / Washington DC / LifeNews.com
/ March 20, 2014
It was nine years ago, March 18, 2005, that my sister, Terri Schiavo's feeding
tube was removed by order of Pinellas County Florida Court Judge, George W.
Greer. It was by Greer's order that Terri would slowly die by way of
starvation and dehydration. It took almost two weeks.
Since Terri's horrific death, the non-profit organization established by my
family, the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, works every day doing what we
can to educate the public, raises the desperately needed awareness on this
widely misunderstood issue of euthanasia, and more importantly, helps families
that contact us. The vast majority of families who do reach out to us are
faced with situations where their loved ones are in jeopardy of having their
life sustaining treatment denied.
What has become painfully obvious is that it seems like almost every day, more
examples of families' medical rights are being denied when it comes to
decisions they are making for their loved ones. Indeed, we receive calls
similar to what our family experienced - a domestic dispute over the care of a
family member. However, more and more, we are getting calls from people
who are fighting physicians, ethic committees, or health care facilities where
their loved ones are being treated.
It can go as far as, if you can believe it, families having their
loved ones stripped away from their care by the hospital, losing complete
custody. When this does happen, there appears to be a certain pattern
that begins the process.
First, the hospital physicians, nurses or even the staff will
create or exaggerate a situation involving the family, most times without any
real evidence, or they will fault the parents or loved one who is the caregiver
with some type of mishap with the patient. Often times what follows is
the family member(s) who were making medical treatment decisions are vilified,
or accused of being the problem. This gives the hospital a reason to
intervene and subsequently take action to deem the family incompetent as the
caretaker.
The hospital can then go as far as restricting visitation rights,
or completely stopping any family member from visiting their loved one,
claiming that they are a "threat" to the care of the patient.
The hospital can then go to court in order to gain control of the patient by
requesting that a guardian be appointed or even the hospital itself, in place
of the family members who were caring for their loved one.
The family who was once in the position of taking care of their
loved one is now on the outside looking in - having no legal rights or any
ability to help or even visit them. If you think this cannot happen, then
you haven't heard of three cases currently taking place where the family has
been removed as the care givers of their child and / or spouse. The cases
of Justina Pelletier in Massachusetts, Bret Bohnin in Alaska, and the Gary
Harvey case in New York. All you need to do is look them up.
In each situation, the facility contends that these patients were
not being properly cared for by their family member and as a result, the
patients were removed from their custody. Although these cases have their
differences, there is one common denominator. Despite the reasons
specified, it appears that in each instance proper care was being given.
And in all of these situations, the care of their loved one has been put in the
hands of strangers.
There have been countless warning signs with the state of our
health care system and its perilous direction when it comes to caring for those
who are unable to speak for themselves. Perhaps much of it started with
the death of my sister, Terri. It is because of this that over the next
two weeks, Terri's Life and Hope Network website will post stories of the
events that occurred on each of those horrific days of Terri's inhumane
death. Not only to remember Terri, but also to keep in mind the countless
people who, as we speak, are suffering slow, agonizing deaths in hospices,
nursing homes, and hospitals in America and around the world. Not to
mention that every one of us needs to understand that no longer are we the ones
who will be making medical decisions for our loved ones if we ever find
ourselves in a situation where a hospital decides it knows better.
end of
article .........
Bobby Schindler
is the brother of the late
Terri Schiavo,
and the Executive Director
of the Terri
Schiavo Life and Hope Network,
at
www.lifeandhope.com
Find out more about Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network @ www.lifeandhope.com , or write them at
P.O. Box 521, Narberth, PA 19072, or phone them at 855-300-HOPE (4673). Find out more about LifeNews.com @ www.LifeNews.com .New note (added info. not from the article):
Any Health Care Law should protect life, support life, and should further the healing of human life and do no harm to human life, and should not force anyone to dishonor the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We humans are created by our Creator Lord, in His image, for His glory! We humans are more than flesh and blood! Any such Health Care Law should be discussed by, supported and agreed upon by, independents, republicans, and democrats alike and should be presented to the public before voted upon Congress and signed by the President of the United States. Any Health Care Law should show the public that all those involved with the writing of the Health Care Law value human life - life made in the image of our Creator -life given as a gift of the Lord. Let's call on our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord's help, and help to repeal, or change all the problems with, the new Health Care Law!!!
7/26/14
The
following is an article from life and hope, a publication from the Terri
Schiavo Life and Hope Network, volume 6 / 1st Edition / www.lifeandhope.comRecent Case ...
Recently the Life and Hope Network received a call from a young man in his 20s. His fiancée experienced an asthma attack and went into cardiac arrest two weeks prior to him contacting us. Physicians initially diagnosed her as brain dead and she needed a ventilator to help with her breathing. According to the young man, physicians re-diagnosed her after she began to show signs of improvement.
Despite this, her parents asked physicians to remove her from the ventilator, with the understanding it would lead to their daughter's death.
The physicians were wrong. When her ventilator was removed, she began to breathe on her own and at that point, was only being sustained by food and water (via feeding tube). According to her fiancée there were times when she was attempting to communicate.
In spite of the signs of progress this young woman appeared tube making, and the desperate pleas from her fiancée, her parents made the decision to remove their daughter's feeding tube and she was subsequently administered morphine and Ativan.
We received a message just recently, letting us know that this young woman had died. Just one more example of how euthanasia is being practiced every day.
end of article ...........
This is sad and tragic and is occurring in the United States, and throughout the world!
Below is an article published in life and hope, a publication of the Terri Sciavo Life and Hope Network volume 6 / 1st Edition / www.lifeandhope.com. This is posted for no monetary gain, or any other kind of gain, and for no promise of any kind of gain.
Unilateral
Non-Resuscitation at Massachusetts General
By
Wesley J. Smith
National
Review Online / 05/12/14
Can this have something to do with Romney/Obamacare?
According
to a medical study, since 2006, Massachusetts General Hospital's Bioethics
Committee has forced people to not receive wanted resuscitation by imposing
unilateral DNRs. And apparently, it's all done in Star Chamber
secrecy. From Thaddeus Pope's blog (quoting from a medical symposium
presentation).
"Unilateral Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) orders are a specific type of medical
futility decision in which clinicians withhold advanced cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest despite objections
of patients or their surrogates. There is little information on how often
and to whom unilateral DNR orders are applied. The ethics committee at
Massachusetts General Hospital has had a unilateral DNR policy since 2006.
We
investigated the incidence, sociodemographic and clinical predictors, and
outcomes of patients with unilateral DNR orders.
If I read this correctly, thirty-eight percent of those upon whom
the unilateral DNRs appear not to have been at the end stage of a terminal
disease:
Patients for whom unilateral DNR was recommended were more
likely to have conditions judged to be endstage rather than potentially
reversible (62% versus 41 %, p=0.05)"
And who can be surprised that non-whites were more likely to have an
involuntary DNR imposed?
This is medical tyranny. People are refused potentially life-saving
treatment based on the secret views of strangers in committee who have given
themselves the power to so dictate. Litigate!
end of
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