it squawks like a death panel

An elderly woman died alone after doctors failed to tell relatives they were ending her life on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway…

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  1. Hog Whitman
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 4:03 pm |

    Asked my cardiologist about 3 years ago what he thought about the proposed new healthcare changes. He said it was going to put a lot of smaller practices out of business. Got a letter from him last week that said, “I never thought I would be writing this letter, but I’m retiring at the end of the year”.

    My family doctor retired unexpectedly in July.

    Both small practices.

  2. Caged Insanity
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 4:05 pm |

    “Failed” my ass. They deliberately chose not to tell the family, and they f’ing know it.

    People really need to wake the hell up and realize that humans are the most evil creature on this stupid rock, and stop pretending they are anything but.

  3. Melissa In Texas
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 4:35 pm |

    Horrifying and sad…
    Obamacare… here we come!

  4. N.O'Really
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 4:51 pm |

    Wow. Here’s another one.

  5. DougM (November is coming)
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 4:52 pm |

    Sounds like murder to me.

  6. Melissa In Texas
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 4:56 pm |

    It does indeed.
    On the second account…
    They intended to tell the family….
    My Gramma used to always say…
    “Meanin’ to don’t pick no cotton”

  7. Fat Baxter
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 5:21 pm |

    “…the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway Death Spiral…”

    Fixed it for them.

  8. Lord of the Fleas
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 5:57 pm |

    This shit will continue until some “doctors” and “nurses” end up beaten to death with cricket bats on the front steps of their hospitals.

    Only then, when the people responsible for this atrocity are forced to confront their own mortality and live in fear for their own lives will they return to their Hippocratic Oaths.

  9. ZZMike
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 6:25 pm |

    Formerly Great Britain always leads in the March of Progress.

    Which is one reason the Progressives like their ideas.

  10. Ironic in Denver
    Posted October 16, 2012 at 9:37 pm |

    9: Formerly Great Britain …

    … now can be referred to as “Lesser Britain” …

    …. soon can be called “Least Britain.”

    Why should any nation worry about invasions by howling savages (as the Brits historically have) when you can raise your own crop of them and then fall under their weight?

    Lesson for use there, if only we would head it.

    Prediction: I don’t expect Zero to win reelection; but, if he does, an emboldened Argentina will surely take another run at the Falklands, and between the now anemic Brit navy and our lack of support (or maybe support for the other side) it is possible that Britain will lose the contest.

  11. ZZMike
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 9:54 am |

    Ironic: Another analogy: the Trojan Horse. In our case, it’s big-hearted moves to ignore the illegal immigration problem.

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