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Short course (long post) on medical ethics.
Are doctors killing patients or taking life when they withdraw or withhold care? Do families who don’t insist that “everything be done” kill their loved one? Do patients who refuse ventilators, dialysis, etc., commit suicide? For that matter, does a ventilator equal dialysis equal a feeding tube? Can the patient who refuses all attempts to … Continue reading
>Medicine by jury
>I received two comments to my post on the case of Mrs. Ruthie Webster, from the lawyer who runs the “Texas Advanced Directive Blog,” Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D. (I have already offered Ms. Ward any help I can give in these cases.) (Among other things) Ms. Ward said, You will NEVER get lawyers out of … Continue reading
Medicine by jury
I received two comments to my post on the case of Mrs. Ruthie Webster, from the lawyer who runs the “Texas Advanced Directive Blog,” Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D. (I have already offered Ms. Ward any help I can give in these cases.) (Among other things) Ms. Ward said, You will NEVER get lawyers out of … Continue reading
>News Release on Embryonic Stem Cell "Breakthrough" Changed
>From the Kaiser Network Daily Reports (free, no subscription), we learn that the Washington Post and others are being forced to backtrack on an unethical press release. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that scientists who have no respect for human life go along with press agents who don’t mind spinning the story! Daily Women’s Health PolicyBioethics … Continue reading
News Release on Embryonic Stem Cell "Breakthrough" Changed
From the Kaiser Network Daily Reports (free, no subscription), we learn that the Washington Post and others are being forced to backtrack on an unethical press release. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that scientists who have no respect for human life go along with press agents who don’t mind spinning the story! Daily Women’s Health PolicyBioethics … Continue reading
>More on dialysis funding
>Here’s more information on all the ways that kidney dialysis is funded. End Stage Renal Failure makes a patient eligible for Social Security Disability.
More on dialysis funding
Here’s more information on all the ways that kidney dialysis is funded. End Stage Renal Failure makes a patient eligible for Social Security Disability.
>Long Term Acute Care
>I’ve never had any experience with admitting patients to Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals, such as the one that Ruthie Webster is admitted to, so I did some research. I was wrong about the Medicare payment rules for Long Term Acute Care. The patient pays a copay for the middle part of the stay, … Continue reading
Long Term Acute Care
I’ve never had any experience with admitting patients to Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals, such as the one that Ruthie Webster is admitted to, so I did some research. I was wrong about the Medicare payment rules for Long Term Acute Care. The patient pays a copay for the middle part of the stay, … Continue reading
Not a Texas “Futile Care” Case?
I think our heart strings are being pulled for the wrong reasons in the case of a Dallas woman. I don’t believe that the case is covered by the Texas Advanced Care Act. I wonder whether the doc was forced to admit that Mrs. Webster is a “long term care patient” that has a chronic … Continue reading
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