Pro-euthanasia doctors are twisting the meaning of ‘palliative care’

Contact your Senator and ask them to reject PCHETA - H.R. 1676/S. 693. This bill is dangerous and gives the government more control over your healthcare.

April 21, 2018 (American Life League) – Merriam-Webster defines the word palliate as a transitive verb that means "to reduce the violence of (a disease); also: to ease (symptoms) without curing the underlying disease." In other words, to palliate means to make a patient comfortable while treating his disease.

This definition should translate into actions being taken to relieve a patient's pain and suffering while doctors and others involved in his treatment work to make him better, or at least comfortable.

Never should pain-relieving treatment – palliative care – be designed to ease the patient into death. This should not happen even in hospice.

Euthanasia is Not the Answer: A Hospice Physician’s View

Euthanasia is Not the Answer: A Hospice Physician’s View
By David Cundiff

A Book worth reading on Amazon-
Instances of euthanasia or mercy killing date back to antiquity. However, it is only recently that the unprecedented grassroots efforts to legalize euthana­ sia have begun building. "Terminal Illness, Assistance with Dying," a California ballot initiative for the No­ vember 1992 election, might for the first time in modem history legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide by physicians. Similar initiatives are planned in other states. To vote intelligently, citizens in California and throughout the United States need to learn who is likely to request euthanasia or assisted suicide, and why. How we care for the terminally ill eventually af­ fects us all.

Lawsuit claims hospice workers told to overmedicate patient at Brian's House

BAY CITY, MI -- Two women have filed a lawsuit against a Bay County hospice, alleging they were fired for refusing give medication that could hasten a patient's death and for alerting police to the matter.

Police say their investigation of the case is over after a medical examiner found no inappropriate conduct in connection with the man's death. No one has been charged with any wrongdoing.

Physician reaches plea deal in $60M fraud scheme that allegedly involved accelerating patient deaths

A physician at Novus, a shuttered hospice provider in Frisco, Texas, has reached a plea deal for his role in a $60 million fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say involved fatally overdosing patients for profit, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Charles Raymond Leach, MD, is slated to plead guilty Sept. 11 to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. He joined Novus in 2014 and became medical director before the company shut down several years ago. He was one of 16 defendants charged in the healthcare fraud scheme in February 2017.

Euthanasia isn’t palliative care, Canadian bishops say

Euthanasia isn’t palliative care, Canadian bishops say

OTTAWA – Canada’s Catholic bishops are urging the federal government to maintain a clear distinction between palliative care and the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide so institutions are not forced to become “an accomplice” in causing an intentional death.

My comment that they wouldn't post: No, Euthanasia is not "supposed" to be Palliative care, but Hospital patients across the Nation are unknowingly being forced onto Palliative and Hospice care and being euthanized. They walk into the Hospital requesting treatment and are instead ILLEGALLY without consent put on Palliative/Hospice Care and denied treatment. Never told of illnesses found through daily lab work and never treated for anything. Dehydrated and starved and denied lifesaving medication. Only offered a Morphine drip to hasten death. Patient and family member's never told the patient now has Sepsis, thanks to rotten medical care and never treated. Just left to die. Palliative/Hospice care MUST be abolished. These death mongers are getting away with Murdering our loved ones. Whether they are terminal or not, only God has the right to decide when life is over. NOT Hospice or Palliative Care!

BioDirection, Inc. Announces Exclusive Worldwide License for Tbit™ System to Diagnose and Monitor Sepsis

Proprietary nanowire technology to be evaluated as potential diagnostic platform for measuring inflammatory biomarkers associated with bacterial infection affecting 30 million people worldwide

BOSTON, Aug. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- BioDirection, Inc., a privately held medical device company developing rapid, whole blood based point-of-care products for the diagnosis and management of concussions and other acquired traumatic brain injuries, today announced that the company has obtained an exclusive worldwide license for the use of the Tbit™ System to diagnose and monitor sepsis.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states, "Sepsis is a complication caused by the body's overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection. It can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. Sepsis is a medical emergency. Time matters. When sepsis is quickly recognized and treated, lives are saved." Additionally, it is reported that sepsis is the most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals, costing nearly $27 billion in 2018.

How University of Utah Health cut sepsis costs by 10%

As one of the leading causes of deaths in hospitals, sepsis — a complication often hard to identify — presents a unique challenge to hospital leaders. Since the risk of death from sepsis increases by about 8 percent with each hour before intervention, it is crucial for hospitals to improve sepsis awareness among staff members and speed sepsis responses.