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Shock: British NHS Euthanizes 130,000 Elderly Patients Annually
Shocking news from England today has top NHS officials indicating doctors acting in the UK government-run health program annually kill as many as 130,000 patients prematurely because of overcrowding at hospitals, medical clinics and nursing homes.
Professor Patrick Pullicino indicated doctors are turning to a so-called “death pathway” protocol that is essentially active euthanasia of patients, according to a London Daily Mail news report. Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Kent, made his remarks in a speech before the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
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.
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. 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.
Professor Pullicino claimed that far too often elderly patients who could live longer are placed on the LCP and it had now become an ‘assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway’. He cited ‘pressure on beds and difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients’ as factors.
Pullicino admitted patients are too quickly put on the pathway who need basic medical treatment and have long lifespans ahead of them. He said he personally intervened to take a patient off the LCP who went on to be successfully treated and told the paper it is “palpably false” that all patients subjected to euthanasia have a grim medical prognosis.
venturaguy
July 1st, 2012
And Chief Justice Roberts just put us on the Obama Care Pathway
Annie
July 1st, 2012
I don’t believe in keeping me alive when I don’t know if I am alive. The paperwork is in place and the physician and the children have been informed.
Therein lies the key for a responsible, dignified exit.
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joe
July 1st, 2012
Ezekiel Emmanuel saw this story and leaped for joy! Are the Emmanuals’ parents still alive or did they meet this fate? Wouldn’t surprise me if the boys chose plastic bags for mom and pop. Something is bad wrong in that family.
grayscape
July 1st, 2012
How does one define elderly or sick? Leftists redefine words all the time….so they could define anybody deserving death regardless of age or health.
It’s happened before…
it ain't larry sinclair
July 1st, 2012
BIG shock…big whoop… ya gotta kill off 15-20 percent of the population in order to impose communism…
undercover larry heard all about it at the weatherman parties back in the 70′s… film at
11:00youtube[unless they trotskyited it]
D-Bad
July 1st, 2012
Looks like Sarah Palin’s ‘death panels’ claim has legs after all.
Unneutral
July 1st, 2012
coming soon to a hospital near you.
PATH
July 1st, 2012
And this is what the Democrats want to bring to america. Yes, Palin was right – again.
Tim
July 1st, 2012
Thank goodness this is in England and not a civilized country like the United States of … uhhh … wait a sec …
Toaster
July 1st, 2012
The UK Daily Mail had this story last week. It’s really sad. Anyone who has an older friend or relative who defends 0bama care or socialized medicine needs to read this.
Stranded in Sonoma
July 1st, 2012
If it involves euthanasia, I would define sick or elderly only as anyone that believes in islam.
persecutor
July 1st, 2012
See there are no death panels–the doctor just decides on his own. Another Palin lie. [sarcasm off]
Stranded in Sonoma
July 1st, 2012
And if you listen to a koolaidian like Pelosi try to spin this, what you’ll hear is that Palin is still wrong. There are no death panels in ObamaTax, and in Britian, they are “pathways” which are different.
Yeah, I know. Everytime I hear Pelosi speak my ears bleed, too.
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Stranded in Sonoma
July 1st, 2012
Here is a comment from the article linked by @Toaster.
In other words, she died the way Terry Schaivo did. In the horrible pain of dehydration.
Come on, libtards! Tell me this won’t happen here! COME ON YOU PHUCKING SCUM! PROVE IT WON’T HAPPEN HERE WITH OBAMATAX!
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Clyde
July 1st, 2012
Today patients in the US can optionally file a Do Not Resuscitate – DNR- order when hospitalized. Watch for that option to become heavily promoted under Obamacare – especially when the patient reaches a certain age.
Also the Brits have been big on “Palliative care” for years. A fancy term for a pathway to controlled death. Hospitals here are doing the same now. Look for it being promoted as a progressive feature of Obamacare.
Won’t be long before primary hospital care will be like the scene in Soylent Green when Sol Roth, aka Edward G. Robinson, was given his choice of videos to watch as he sipped his final drink in life.
Tim
July 1st, 2012
“Gee, that Conservative has a hangnail … looks like we’re gonna have to put him down … quality of life and all that, y’know.”
Tim
July 1st, 2012
“Didn’t donate to Obama? Well, she is over 30, y’know … elderly … and has that horrible sinus thing … she needs to be put down.”
MN Patriot
July 1st, 2012
@Clyde, or like the Simpsons when grandpa was condemned by the death panel. “I want to hear the Glenn Miller Orchestra and I want to see cops beating up hippies. “
MaryfromMarin
July 1st, 2012
The “death pathways” are end-of-life abortions.
Pro-lifers in England should be stationing themselves in the hospitals, medical clinics, and nursing homes to try to prevent these murders.