Having worked Hospice and Palliative care, it's hard enough to gain patient and family's trust after death panel commotion, sure this will spread like wildfire instilling fear of premature death. TONS of education will be needed by hospice staff to allay fears of patients living in this area and undue harm by this Hospice owner.
The owner of a North Texas medical company regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by NBC 5....
..Harris instructed a nurse to administer overdoses to three patients and directed another employee to increase a patient's medication to four times the maximum allowed, the FBI said. He allegedly sent text messages like, "You need to make this patient go bye-bye."...
Even if he wanted to make pts "go bye bye," some pts can still hang on.
However, even if some people manage to "hang on," conspiring to attempt to make people "go bye-bye" is a serious crime (not saying I'm sure that's what happened, but, speaking hypothetically ...).
I was recently told to basically do this (and I work critical care) by a doctor because it would "make things easier on her husband" who was old and gladly sacrificing his rest to spend her last moments with her.
I was appalled and refused, since she was doing fine on the IVPs I was giving her.
elkpark
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However, even if some people manage to "hang on," conspiring to attempt to make people "go bye-bye" is a serious crime (not saying I'm sure that's what happened, but, speaking hypothetically ...).