Hospitals do not resuscitate (DNR) orders have become a common option offered to patients in today’s modern hospitals. The intention is to spare an individual a long drawn out death if the patient slides into a vegetative state and can no longer decide his or her fate for themselves. Researchers are finding that there are treatment facilities out there that are treating DNR orders as an excuse to provide less service and treat patients as if they are only to receive end of life care. More
DNR should be changed to DNRAO Do not resuscitate any Obama. There, that should fix it.
First do no harm
Meh!
From the article: “In the meantime, patients need to keep in mind that hospitals are under pressure from health regulators to ask every patient whether they want resuscitation or prefer a DNR.” Health “regulators”? Insurance companies?
BTW (and since I never go in for annual anything): If you tell the scheduler or reception that your visit is for an “annual” (whatever it is), insurance companies do not charge a co-pay because it is considered preventive.
Maybe you should just take some pain pills Obama, your a useless piece of shit anyway.
I have heard of at least two cases in Canada where the government said it would not fund care for a terminal illness but it would fund a doctor assisted suicide.
I have at least two friends who believe that their loved ones were allowed to die so the hospital could save on costs, and others who believe that doctors and pharma are pushing drugs.
Hospitals are businesses too, and although we like to think that doctors are all altruistic the reality is that they all have families to feed, and some are as greedy and willing to break the law as other business types.
One of the hardest decisions I ever had to make was to sign a DNR for my husband who was gravely sick and on a breathing tube. Thankfully he recovered that time but we had made it clear to each other that we would not want to live on life support. There is a big difference between being alive and living.
IDLID – Insurance Drained. Let It Die.
MY only fear is, they’ll LET me die, to harvest my organs, to keep George Soros alive, or some such. How long HAVE they been doing that, to keep his zombie ass alive, anyways?! 😮 😮 😮
Here’s what to do: Make out and sign a DNR-type document (or living will, whatever) with
at least one witness’ signature. DO NOT give it to the hospital immediately, but keep it at home with a trusted loved one. When/if you get in a situation where it is absolutely necessary (i.e., a no-hope scenario), THEN that person can give it to the doctors so that it may be implemented. Prior to that, there is no need for them to know about it.
And yet when I review paperwork with my hospice families, I explain to them DNR does not mean “do not treat”. There’s theory, then there’s this disgusting reality.
I’m definitely against a medicalized death. I see that shit all too much every day. But that’s a choice I make for myself, and only myself. To each his own.
Too many people laughed at Sarah Palin when she brought up death panels. But guess what…..
My wife had my clothes monogrammed with the letters DNR, never understood that before.
Now I get it.
Most states have a Health Care Power of Attorney which allows someone else to make medical decisions if you can’t. A DNR puts an end of life situation in the medical provider’s hands; you want a trusted attorney in fact making these decisions.
One lesson drilled into me when one of my children was undergoing cancer treatment is that you are in charge of your medical care. Sometimes you need to demand services. Sometimes you need to prevent health care providers from performing procedures that may be unnecessary. You need to monitor what the provider is doing, and you need to make sure they are doing it right. And please make any hospital stay as short as possible; these are buildings full of sick people and a hospital can kill you.
I’m not knocking the medical profession because overall, I think our medical professionals are the best in the world. But all too often patients prefer to let doctors, hospital administrators or insurers make the important decisions, and this is frequently a mistake.
Whyatt, you are right on the money. Also, whenever you go to the doctors for what ever reason, if possible, have an advocate with you to take notes or just listen. I would like to believe the doctors and hospitals are all ethical but they are a cross section of society like any profession and there are good ones and bad ones.
I dear friend once told me that doctors bury their mistakes. I’m sure it happens.
Vietvet just beat me to it. My wife and I just had this discussion with our estate lawyer.
Keep your medical Advance Directive and Living Will (names vary by state) private to yourself and spouse until/unless needed.
Doctors and hospital staff are not what they once were.
Big Government destroys everything it touches.
More obamacare crap… If you return to the hospital within thirty days of last admit the hospital loses money. If you elect hospice you won’t return.. The older and sicker you are the more they prefer that you die.
DNR now means Do Nothing Resident
@Joe…..: My wife said the letters she put on mine stood for “Darling, No Regrets”.
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Hospitals and organs are big business. I had someone who would know a long time ago that certain hospitals get a fee for organs, so certain hospitals will not work as hard to save you if you’re an organ donor and that if you combine that with no insurance, you’re pretty much screwed because you’re worth a lot more dead than alive.
I quit allowing the little box to be checked on my DL after that. I don’t want to be kept alive if I’m not living, but if I can be saved I don’t want them to let me die to just harvest my organs. I’m probably getting too old for them to want them now, but now I have to worry they’d rather just kill off all the old coots. lol I did always tell my husband though he could donate my organs when I died as I’d have no further use of them.
VA secretary out
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, researchers found that “mortality was over two times greater” for patients with DNRs than those without them.
BS, I have a DNR and I’m not dead yet and I’ve been in and out of hospitals.
PS: we’re all gonna die, so how can mortality be over two times greater?
Thanks for the info Vietvet….good thought.
The Big Three these days means Hospitals, Insurance companies and Big Pharma. The docs aren’t making as much as they used to, their (hospital) employers are pushing them as hard as they can to see as many pts a day, and we are moved like cattle through the “health care” machine. The only thing a primary care doc does is orchestrate tests and referrals to specialists within their particular insurance network. When is the last time anyone went to a private practice doctor who actually doctored you?