RE: Emergency room: was Re: My Predicament

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It’s little better over here. My mother was 82, in a retirement home, wheel-chair bound with serious heart failure. She had no quality of life left and had already been through one serious hospitalisation where she was not expected to survive. Her heart and lungs were in very poor condition. Then she developed pneumonia. She was semi-conscious, all the family were there and yet the doctor wanted to send her to hospital. The ambulance arrived and we made a collective decision that Mum had been through enough. We sent the ambulance away. Mum slowly faded away with all of us at her side in the comfortable surroundings of the retirement home. When the doctor returned he was very very angry and took his anger out on me a few minutes after my mother had died. ‘You realise I shall have to order a post-mortem now’, he said spitefully, presumably implying that we might have bumped her off. The post-mortem just confirmed what we already knew – that she could not have survived. I’m still upset at the behaviour of the doctor who did not even know my mother.Bob‘Medical professionals have experienced a lot and yet I'm not sureit always comes home to them what is at stake when a sufferingperson with no hope of recovery of any part of his real life isforced to continue living.’_

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Hello Bob, Your closing quote says it all. Your family made the right decision and I hope should that day come to me, that mine will do the same. Chuck " What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. " (Chuck) Maack - Rmd, PCaA, PCaM Email: maack1@... PCa Help: " Observations " http://www.theprostateadvocate.com From: ProstateCancerSupport [mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of Crozier Data ConsultancySent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:05 AMTo: ProstateCancerSupport Subject: RE: Emergency room: was Re: My Predicament It’s little better over here. My mother was 82, in a retirement home, wheel-chair bound with serious heart failure. She had no quality of life left and had already been through one serious hospitalisation where she was not expected to survive. Her heart and lungs were in very poor condition. Then she developed pneumonia. She was semi-conscious, all the family were there and yet the doctor wanted to send her to hospital. The ambulance arrived and we made a collective decision that Mum had been through enough. We sent the ambulance away. Mum slowly faded away with all of us at her side in the comfortable surroundings of the retirement home. When the doctor returned he was very very angry and took his anger out on me a few minutes after my mother had died. ‘You realise I shall have to order a post-mortem now’, he said spitefully, presumably implying that we might have bumped her off. The post-mortem just confirmed what we already knew – that she could not have survived. I’m still upset at the behaviour of the doctor who did not even know my mother.Bob‘Medical professionals have experienced a lot and yet I'm not sureit always comes home to them what is at stake when a sufferingperson with no hope of recovery of any part of his real life isforced to continue living.’_No virus found in this message.Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 2012.0.2180 / Virus Database: 2437/5093 - Release Date: 06/25/12