LOL...I tried to be patient...(sm)
Posted By: Just the big bad on 2008-11-08
In Reply to: I was too busy griping about.........sm - m
but I just couldn't wait.....
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Frisk, Sr. has done a lot for patient care with HCA
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she was in a 'vegetable' state. How long can a patient
be kept alive under these circumstances? I guess, forever?! What a terrible thought, for everybody involved.
Does anybody know how long a person can survive on a feeding tube?
Alzheimer's patient of a friend of mine
She survived 20 years in la-la land. She never knew anything. Alzheimer's struck her so hard and so fast, she was 6 months before being placed in a nursing home. My friend did not want the feeding tube, but her brother did. Can you imagine my friend going to the nursing home every day and sitting with a shell of her mother for 20 years? That's what she did.
If there is a brain syndrome where the patient will never come out of it, don't let that person suffer. Terry Schiavo never really came out of her brain syndrome, so it was right to let her go. It is cruel to force some patient's to live if there is no hope.
Flame all you want, but that's just my opinion.
How could there be doctor/patient communication issues during a preventative healthcare visit if -
the patient isn't participating in preventative healthcare? The reason I offered is not something I came up with myself.
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