Our Progressive Doctors

It is not comforting to think that physicians first allegiance may no longer be to the patient but to the Obama Care health service. After all, what could cheapen the value of life faster than government cutting reimbursement to the doctors really willing to fight for patient lives? Caring for the sickest is naturally an expensive proposition so why not just save our Federal masters a bucket of money and die quickly and quietly. The new mantra of the progressive Left (who of course would exempt themselves from having care withheld) could be "a good American is a dead American".

Defending Innocent Life

Today's edition of The Blaze features another terrifying hint of the life-cheapening direction in which our culture has fallen, with Liz Klimas chronicling how innocent infants are the coming target for the culture of death here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ethicists-argue-in-favor-of-after-birth-abortions-as-newborns-are-not-persons/. Two so-called ethicists from Australia have published an article that it is morally acceptable to dispense with babies if they will burden the family or society. God help humanity if they give any credence to these eugenics enthusiasts.

Medicine Without Mercy

Are doctors developing a relentless and ruthless determination to make certain that patients die sooner than they necessarily would have as a means of saving "finite" medical resources and holding down cost, and are physicians being taught a perversion of ethics that cheapens and devalues the individual human being, reducing life to the cold calculation of a cost-benefit analysis? With individual worth and the very value of life already under assault, will the coming "Obama Care" mean life prolonging treatment will be denied ever faster, making America's most common cause of death medical personnel taking away that which would allow the patient to live?

Depravity and Deceit

Society has long accepted a patient's right to die but in so doing, embarked down the slippery slope to making earlier than necessary death a resource-conserving and cost-saving obligation on those who could survive and perhaps even return to functional status had their care only been maintained. In my Father's case, his doctors hid their malign intentions from us. Denying life prolonging measures is obvious dereliction- if we starved Dad and denied him water at home, we would rightly have been charged with neglect- but somehow, Vanderbilt medical staff may withhold hydration and nutrition, meaning and succeeding at speeding death with absolute impunity. Heed this warning now, before someone you love is claimed by "medical futility policy" later.

Does Anyone Care?

Doctors are now refusing life-saving treatment and even basic sustenance to patients and deliberately hastening deaths and when apprising members of the community of the circumstances of my Father's death, we are met with quizzical looks, bemused expressions, outright disbelief, and people thinking we are absolutely crazy. Warnings that should be taken seriously are ignored far too often. In the case of "futile care policy", ignorance is not bliss but an invitation to great peril at the hands of medical practitioners turned predators.

Medicine's New Victims

Who is more vulnerable than a critical care patient? Who is more helpless than someone dependent on medical staff to survive? Until my Father was caught in Vanderbilt's terminal trap, I had never heard the terms "medical futility" or "futile care policy". Learn about these insidious hazards now and fight them before life sustaining care is denied to someone you love.

"Futile Care" Crisis

Fatal outcomes are being imposed on patients by hospital staff as life sustaining measures are deliberately withheld and this should be a monumental story. The very notion that doctors are now empowered to override the advance directive of the patient and the desires of the patient's family is not widely known and hardly ever publicized. Medical futility policy is even somewhat obscure among medical professionals, but from the experience of my Father, I will attest that physicians are in fact ignoring both patients and their surrogates who seek care that will prolong life and intentionally orchestrating patient deaths.