Medical Mistakes: What Every Patient Needs To Know

Medical Mistakes: What Every Patient Needs To Know | Bankrate.com:

Our health care system is killing us.Medical mistakes are said to be the third leading cause of death in the U.S., trailing only heart disease and cancer. Whether through physician error, “healthcare-associated infections” such as MRSA, or faulty implants or devices, an estimated 440,000 Americans die each year as an unintended consequence of medical care.

Why Doctors Are Losing the Public’s Trust

Why Doctors Are Losing the Public’s Trust | Physician's Weekly for Medical News, Journals & Articles:

"The public is losing their trust in us. They see us as driven for profit. They feel we don’t listen to their concerns anymore and don’t care what they want or need."

How Hospitals Kill Our Loved Ones And Conceal It

How Hospitals Kill Our Loved Ones And Conceal It | HuffPost:

And what you can do to protect your loved ones.

The distinction, though, is important. This is not about a nefarious conspiracy of malevolence and willful deception. Rather, it is about an insidious conspiracy of benevolence and unwitting delusion. It is about a system populated mostly by genuinely caring and often highly expert people, that nonetheless devolves into routine and dangerous dysfunction.

Medical Murder? Massachusetts Woman Medically Kidnapped from Her Home Dies After Being Denied Medical Intervention

Medical Murder? Massachusetts Woman Medically Kidnapped from Her Home Dies After Being Denied Medical Intervention:

As the icy blast of the historic “bomb cyclone” chilled the heart of Boston and flooded her streets, an even more chilling battle was taking place over the life of 69 year old Beverley Finnegan.The fight to get court-appointed guardians and attorneys to allow her to receive life-saving medical treatment has ended with her death just before noon on Friday, January 5, 2017

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

See Beverley’s story here:

Active Senior Medically Kidnapped from her Home and                                Forced onto Drugs in Nursing Home Now Near Death

UPDATE: Family Fights for the Life of Senior Medically                                    Kidnapped from her Home and Forced onto Drugs

Her tragic death follows the one day that her sister and advocate Janet Pidge
were not able to be by her side at Framington Union Hospital. The brutal
snowstorm kept Janet, as well as many other residents in the greater Boston
area, home and off the streets on Thursday.

FYI-The Nashua Hospital responsible for my husbands death

FYI-The Nashua Hospital responsible for my husbands death misdiagnosed an aquaintance around the same time my husband was sick. He had all the same symptoms as my husband, weight loss, weakness etc. This Hospital ALSO told this man he was dying of lung cancer. Lucky for him he went to a Hospital in Manchester, NH. Guess what! He had an infection, NOT lung cancer, was treated and is very much alive and recovered! This Nashua Hospital is Sepsis central. If you cherish your life, steer clear!

Always Care, Never Kill: How Physician-Assisted Suicide Endangers the Weak, Corrupts Medicine, Compromises the Family, and Violates Human Dignity and Equality

Always Care, Never Kill: How Physician-Assisted Suicide Endangers the Weak, Corrupts Medicine, Compromises the Family, and Violates Human Dignity and Equality | The Heritage Foundation:

Allowing physician-assisted suicide would be a grave mistake for four reasons. First, it would endanger the weak and vulnerable. Second, it would corrupt the practice of medicine and the doctor–patient relationship. Third, it would compromise the family and intergenerational commitments. And fourth, it would betray human dignity and equality before the law. Instead of helping people to kill themselves, we should offer them appropriate medical care and human presence. We should respond to suffering with true compassion and solidarity. Doctors should help their patients to die a dignified death of natural causes, not assist in killing. Physicians are always to care, never to kill.
The Hippocratic Oath proclaims: “I will keep [the sick] from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.”[1] This is an essential precept for a flourishing civil society. No one, especially a doctor, should be permitted to kill intentionally, or assist in killing intentionally, an innocent neighbor.

Allowing PRN Orders for Morphine May Result in Untimely Death For COPD Patients

Allowing PRN Orders for Morphine May Result in Untimely Death For COPD Patients

Hospice Patients Alliance:

Patients in hospice who have diseases without severe pain may not need morphine for comfort. Some take other analgesics and some take none. But patients who have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or "COPD" may especially be sensitive to the adverse effects of morphine. COPD patients have breathing difficulties and anxiety which can sometimes be lessened by very small dosages of a sedative and/or a very small dosage of morphine. However, given in too high a dose, morphine can seriously interfere with a patient's ability to breathe. In fact, anyone who is given a dosage of morphine which is much higher than they are accustomed to, may stop breathing.

One of morphine's main adverse effects is slowing down the respiratory rate, i.e., respiratory depression. If the dosage of morphine is too high for what the patient is accustomed to, the respiratory depression can become severe and actually stop the breathing periodically for a few seconds or many seconds. This pattern of breathing where the patient stops breathing (skipping breaths) and then starts breathing again is termed "apnea." Apnea commonly occurs as a result of the terminal illness and the dying process, when certain metabolic changes occur in the patient's body. If the breathing is stopped completely without restarting, the patient dies. Because COPD patients have compromised breathing already, ... very inefficient breathing, overly high doses of morphine can quickly cause these patients to stop breathing as it did with my Husband. Fact!