Thursday, September 3, 2009

Sentenced to Death on the NHS

[HT:IR]
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death. (snip)

Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away...

[From a UK paper.]

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