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How Doctors Choose To Die
July 10, 2013 at 6:51 pm
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When faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment. An American doctor explains why the best death can be the least medicated – and the art of dying peacefully, at home.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/f...choose-die
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RE: How Doctors Choose To Die
July 10, 2013 at 7:01 pm
My brother-in-law is a doctor and he has made many of the same observations. What is done to the elderly in hospitals borders on criminal. They are a cash cow for Medicare practitioners some of whom, apparently, want no part of what they inflict on others.
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RE: How Doctors Choose To Die
July 10, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Yeah, I don't see the point of bankrupting my family to prolong my life for a little while longer and suffer the side effects of chemo. Just hook me up with some decent meds and plenty of beer.
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RE: How Doctors Choose To Die
July 10, 2013 at 7:15 pm
(July 10, 2013 at 7:09 pm)Rahul Wrote: Yeah, I don't see the point of bankrupting my family to prolong my life for a little while longer and suffer the side effects of chemo. Just hook me up with some decent meds and plenty of beer.
just give me lots of morphine and let me die with a stripper sat on my face.
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