Abhor evil,
cling to what is good.
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 the feeding tube of my sister Terri Schiavo 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.
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 .
Love
always perseveres.
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 by 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!!!
The Holy Scriptures tell us about our Creator Lord, and how we humans
are created by our Creator Lord, in HIS image, for HIS glory, and how we should
worship our Creator Lord and HIS Beloved Son Jesus with all our heart, soul,
mind, and body, and how we should value life, and how we should protect and
support human life, and how our Creator Lord loves us that HE sent HIS only
Begotten Son Jesus into this World to shed HIS blood and to die on a cross for
us sinners, so that we might have eternal life! The Holy Scriptures are
pure, perfect, powerful, profitable for doctrine and teaching, and cannot be
broken! Our Creator Lord is faithful! Our Creator Lord is
true! Our Creator Lord cannot lie! Our Creator Lord can be taken at
HIS Word! Jesus is the Word of God! Our Creator Lord is good!
Our Creator Lord is good all the time! Our Creator Lord is LOVE!
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.com
Recent
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 to be 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 Schiavo 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 article ...................................
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The Holy Scriptures tell us about our Creator Lord, and how we
humans are created by our Creator Lord, in HIS image, for HIS glory, and how we
should worship our Creator Lord and HIS Beloved Son Jesus with all our heart,
soul, mind, and body, and how we should value life, and how we should protect
and support human life, and how our Creator Lord loves us that HE sent HIS only
Begotten Son Jesus into this World to shed HIS blood and to die on a cross for
us sinners, so that we might have eternal life! The Holy Scriptures are
pure, perfect, powerful, profitable for doctrine and teaching, and cannot be
broken! Our Creator Lord is faithful! Our Creator Lord is
true! Our Creator Lord cannot lie! Our Creator Lord can be taken at
HIS Word! Jesus is the Word of God! Our Creator Lord is good!
Our Creator Lord is good all the time! Our Creator Lord is LOVE!
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