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Current Events => Political Ammunition => Topic started by: thundley4 on October 11, 2009, 10:34:08 PM

Title: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve
Post by: thundley4 on October 11, 2009, 10:34:08 PM
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AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.

Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.
Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”
TimesOnline (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6869646.ece)

No death panels under 0BamaCare?
Title: Re: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve
Post by: jinxmchue on October 12, 2009, 11:27:14 AM
Just give her a pain pill.
Title: Re: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve
Post by: Chris_ on October 12, 2009, 11:57:31 AM
TimesOnline (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6869646.ece)

No death panels under 0BamaCare?
Don't forget, the US has the *worst* healthcare in the world...and we spends "waaaaay more than everyone else".   :whatever:

We need to be more like the Europeans, right? 

 :banghead:
Title: Re: Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve
Post by: jtyangel on October 12, 2009, 12:29:44 PM
Doesn't surprise me in the least. We have a casualty in our family under NHS as well.