Medical errors third-leading cause of death in America

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You know once an old person goes on hospice they really try to hurry them along into the next world.

This might mean restricting food or overmedicating with morphine. Hospice contractors have a financial incentive to have their patients die within 6 months. They loose contracts.

The most dangerous person in the hospital is the social worker, in my experience. These are the communist apparachiks of rationed care imo, the death panel thugs.

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6 months.. my great grandmother didn't last a week on hospice care.

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My step dad didn’t last past the third morning. I stepped out to get some breakfast that morning. I hadn’t given it much thought about an injection a nurse had given him just before I left. As I walked out the main door the nurse said, “don’t be too long”. When I came back thirty minutes later with take out he was in the death rattle breathing stage. Pretty sure they overdosed him. It was a sad day, he was a good man. He tirelessly did the best he could for my mom, myself and my brothers. I held his hand as he slipped away. From my experience there, I’m convinced those places are death factories.

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With my mom we fought to have a feeding tube put in, they sent in psychiatrists and social workers to talk her out of it. She was moderately senile so they would wait till the family members were away from the bedside to set to work on her.

Eventually we got her put on home hospice coverage (a medicare thing). Several nurses visits a week plus monthly visit from a physicians assistant. We paid for extra private nursing. They tried to starve her to death by lowering the feedin tube rate. They kept claiming it was against doctors orders to feed her more than 600 calories. But we had more control because it was our house. We would turn that shit up when they left. They also were trying to water restrict her. We had a dietician come in who said the levels they prescribed were not compatible with life. I confronted the physicians assistant about the dieticians opinion and she said IT WAS NOT HER AREA!

They were always pushing the morphine even though she wasnt in pain. Thats their MO. Starvation and morphine. I feel bad because initially I just trusted them but I eventually caught on to their game. We told them, she doesnt want morphine. They were literally angry about it!

The worst was the social worker coming to the house to harass my dad in to removing the feeding tube. She would brow beat him. Made me think of communist apparatchiks that would harass the chinese to get abortions under the one child policy. It was totally psycho. Eventually I had to get a little psycho with the social worker. She stopped coming.

I am so glad we stood up to the healthcare establishment in these instances. You cannot trust them. They really want you to die asap. She lasted about 10 mos on home hospice ( which they definitely did not like) She was reasonably comfortable. It was not great. Totally bed ridden. But we could not allow our mom to be starved to death or ODed on morphine. So she spent the last year of her life in bed watching doc martin episodes. And I have the satisfaction of knowing I thwarted some evil commies from murdering her.

@goatheadsoup With my mom we fought to have a feeding tube put in, they sent in psychiatrists and social workers to talk her out of it. She was moderately senile so they would wait till the family members were away from the bedside to set to work on her. Eventually we got her put on *home hospice* coverage (a medicare thing). Several nurses visits a week plus monthly visit from a physicians assistant. We paid for extra private nursing. They tried to starve her to death by lowering the feedin tube rate. They kept claiming it was against doctors orders to feed her more than 600 calories. But we had more control because it was our house. We would turn that shit up when they left. They also were trying to water restrict her. We had a dietician come in who said the levels they prescribed were not compatible with life. I confronted the physicians assistant about the dieticians opinion and she said IT WAS NOT HER AREA! They were always pushing the morphine even though she wasnt in pain. Thats their MO. Starvation and morphine. I feel bad because **initially I just trusted them** but I eventually caught on to their game. We told them, she doesnt want morphine. They were literally angry about it! The worst was the social worker coming to the house to harass my dad in to removing the feeding tube. She would brow beat him. Made me think of communist apparatchiks that would harass the chinese to get abortions under the one child policy. It was totally psycho. Eventually I had to get a little psycho with the social worker. She stopped coming. I am so glad we stood up to the healthcare establishment in these instances. You cannot trust them. They really want you to die asap. She lasted about 10 mos on home hospice ( which they definitely did not like) She was reasonably comfortable. It was not great. Totally bed ridden. But we could not allow our mom to be starved to death or ODed on morphine. So she spent the last year of her life in bed watching doc martin episodes. And I have the satisfaction of knowing I thwarted some evil commies from murdering her.