[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]This article came from Daily Mail Online UK 6/19/12 a British News site. The title of the aritcle is:[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]NHS stands for National Health Service.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]Guess human life is becoming pretty cheap in this world.
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial 'death pathway' into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in hospitals across the country. It is designed to come into force when doctors believe it is impossible for a patient to recover and death is imminent.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]It can include withdrawal of treatment--including the provision of water and nourishment by tube--and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. Around 29 per cent--130,000--are of patients who were on the LCP.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva][Pullicino] said: 'The lack of evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway makes it an assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]'Patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of their condition.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]'This determination in the LCP leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The personal views of the physician or other medical team members of perceived quality of life or low likelihood of a good outcome are probably central in putting a patient on the LCP.'[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]He added: 'If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying as it is now associated with 29 per cent of NHS deaths.'[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]NHS stands for National Health Service.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]Guess human life is becoming pretty cheap in this world.
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial 'death pathway' into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in hospitals across the country. It is designed to come into force when doctors believe it is impossible for a patient to recover and death is imminent.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]It can include withdrawal of treatment--including the provision of water and nourishment by tube--and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. Around 29 per cent--130,000--are of patients who were on the LCP.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva][Pullicino] said: 'The lack of evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway makes it an assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]'Patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of their condition.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]'This determination in the LCP leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The personal views of the physician or other medical team members of perceived quality of life or low likelihood of a good outcome are probably central in putting a patient on the LCP.'[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Geneva]He added: 'If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying as it is now associated with 29 per cent of NHS deaths.'[/FONT]
