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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Award Gala!
Please check our website for all
upcoming events!
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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