>>>>>Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>It is designed to come into force when doctors believe it is impossible for a patient to recover and death is imminent.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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’.
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>>>>>He cited ‘pressure on beds and difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients’ as factors.
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>>>>>Professor Pullicino revealed he had personally intervened to take a patient off the LCP who went on to be successfully treated.
>>>>>He said this showed that claims they had hours or days left are ‘palpably false’.
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>>>>Successfully treated. For what? I assume the patient must be alive and healthy now.
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>>>You could keep reading, hence the
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>>>>>...
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>>>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html#ixzz1yK7gbr7D
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>>>>Better off doing health care Jake's way. If you have the $$, you get health care. Otherwise, drop dead.
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>>>Better off doing health care NHS way. If your old, drop dead.
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>>You might live long enough to get old.
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>Life Expectancy ~2% difference
>UK 80.17
>US 78.49

So they still have a higher life expectancy even though they are killing off their old people because the National Health Care system wants to get rid of them. Hmm.

The US ranks a nice solid 50th place in life expectancy according to your source. Beats Yemen I guess.

>https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
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>He said: ‘The lack of evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway makes it an assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway.
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>‘Very likely many elderly patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the LCP.
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>‘Patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of their condition.
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>‘Predicting death in a time frame of three to four days, or even at any other specific time, is not possible scientifically.
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>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.’