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doctor's murder patients/yell in ear

Visit Rosetteismyname's Blog | 11 months ago

A woman at Baylor Medical was on conscience on life support and had maxed out her insurance. Under Texas law, a so-called "ethics committee" that contains 3 doctors that the patient cannot choose to all agree that a patient will die within 6 months. They conclude this to save the hospital money. They yell in the patients ear to open their mouth in order to remove the tubing for them to breathe.

They then sue someone close to her for her bill. This is MURDER. Yes, murder. Under the legal term as defined by the government, this wouldn't fall under the same definiton. The law is called, "Texas Futile Care Law"

Don't claim to be Christian and be for killing someone while they are in the hospital and need medical attention like this. This is murder for PROFIT. Why don't people care.

She was biting on the tube so they couldn't remove it from her mouth. They yelled in her ear over and over and then screamed in her ear one last time before removing the tube. The woman finally opened her mouth and they yanked out her breathing support - SHE immediately flailed about unable to breathe until she died b/c the hospital tortured her in order so that they could murder her/kill her.

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Good Ole Boy (Independent) - 11 months ago

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Under the 1999 law, a hospital may withdraw life support as long as its ethics committee agrees with … Show full comment

As an ICU nurse I believe the law is justified, way to many patients on vents hang around for weeks until they die when after 1 day on the vent the nurses and doctors could tell it's a lost cause. There are others who will survive on the vent with a stomach tube for hydration and nutrition and little or no quality of life. In both cases the medical bills are in the millions. Medicare is going down the tubes and this is part of the problem. ICU's lose money after 3 days of patient stay in most cases and are always money losers for hospitals. Families that want a comatose vented peg tubed relative alive need to think of their self in that condition.

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Rosetteismyname (Centrist) - 11 months ago

Under the 1999 law, a hospital may withdraw life support as long as its ethics committee agrees with the attending doctor that continued treatment is inappropriate and the family gets 10 days' notice to arrange a transfer to another facility. The family gets 48 hours' notice of the ethics committee hearing.

The law has proved highly controversial in the past two years, with very public fights in Houston and around the state. Doctors say continuing treatment in some cases is inhumane. Patients' families contend that only they should be able to decide when treatment ends, and that 10 days isn't long enough to find a transfer.

Deuell's bill, hashed out by medical, religious, ethics and civil rights experts, was two bills away from being heard when the deadline for passing certain legislation hit on May 22. It would have extended the ethics committee notice to seven days and the transfer time to 21 days; precluded the law from being invoked if the only life-sustaining treatment were artificial nutrition and hydration; and set up safeguards for a patient's loved ones, such as assigning them a medical liaison and allowing them representation at hearings.

It's unclear how hospitals will react to the pressure. Memorial Hermann Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital, where fights involving the law have taken place, issued statements last week that their policies already provide protections and courtesies for patients beyond the law's requirements. (St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, another battle site, did not respond to the Chronicle's inquiry.)

Texas Hospital Association officials, who helped write the failed legislation, said their guidelines should be finished and sent to hospitals or put online around the end of summer.

They said they'll use the legislation and lessons learned from conflicts as a basis.

"The emphasis will be on improving the process on the front end and laying everything out in a simple policy," said Dinah Welsh, senior director of advocacy and public policy for the THA.

"The idea, if there's a dispute, is communication, communication, communication."


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