NHS, don't ever complain

The-Snowman:
Well firstly it’s not simply a case of them just deciding without telling anyone , nor do they just decide to issue a DNR without good cause and reason but even at that, Ill still take the UK option since the US option wont even get that far if you dont have the correct insurance or means to pay.

Incidentally, I assume both you and (if theyre still alive) your elderly parents don’t use the NHS?

Firstly in the case of the DNR issue the fear is breaking an elderly person’s ribs and other type injuries or bringing back a vegetable because the heart took too long to start up again.Under that type of bs threat even I’d want to be DNR’d at any age.However as we all know the reality is broken ribs or more severe injuries or being brought back as a vegetable are an acceptable risk and generally means the deliverer is doing it wrong without decent training which says to avoid those issues in the form of technique and knowing when to stop.Yes we all know the risk of the amateur good samaritan getting all that wrong and again that applies at any age not just the elderly and no one walks around with a DNR form pinned to their back anyway.While equally generally CPR ain’t going to work anyway in most cases at which point being dead with broken ribs is acedemic while if it works broken ribs never killed anyone unlike a stopped heart.

As for myself and my remaining hanging onto life by a thread mum.Just hope that none of your loved ones ends up in the situation of wrongly being thrown on the palliative ‘care’ ( stealth euthanasia ) scrap heap.Subjected to lethal drug cocktails like pre gablin and oral morphine and Fentanyl and/or Lorazapam just to supposedly ‘relieve’ the supposed pain and distress of leg ulcer issues and home nurses refusing point blank to carry out instructed prescribed wound disinfection.With the all too predictable effects of that now confirmed having been readmitted to hospital after combined seizure/arrest and severe infection and medication toxicity issues.In addition to the death sentence of that also removing the person from ongoing essential programmed out patient Cancer treatment follow up and check ups resulting in it’s all too predictable return.In addition to the results of reinfection all because the risks of surgical intervention to deal with Ischaemic leg issues were supposedly considered too much ( more like too expensive ).The result now being told off the record that mistakes happen.

On that note regarding the murderous nature of the so called ‘palliative care’ option,often to save the cash required to treat complicated expensive illnesses among low priority demographics,we aren’t talking about US private v UK NHS.It’s an international issue which knows no boundaries.Wake up and smell the coffee as it stands given the wrong illness in the wrong circumstances all health care including adult social services forcing it against the patient’s will becomes something to be feared whoever provides it. :imp: :cry:

hospicepatients.org/euth-center.html

Ironically this warning,concerning the OP’s potential future status,regardless of how we pay for health care,will have been blocked by him.