Beware: Hospitals think "do not resuscitate" means you don't want to live

Hip-fracture surgery patients who opt for DNRs reduce their changes of surviving their hospital stay.  At Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, researches found that "morality was over two times greater" for patients with DNRs than those without them.

For the healthiest patients, the impact was even more extreme.  DNRs upped their risk of dying in the hospital from 3 percent to 17 percent.

DNRs are dangerous even if you are healthy.

18 November 2013 : the day Randy should have died if I hadn't rescued him.

Duping Delight

I came across what "duping delight" means. It is what happened to me at the hands of the VCHA.  From social workers, administrators, nurses and a physician when they asserted that I had no legal rights regarding my husband.

Duping delight is what happens when a person in a position of power looks down on you and displays a half-smile (or a quarter-smile).  When this would happen to me I was taken aback into silence as I believed this was not true. How could I not have any rights when it concerned my husband.  And after all these years I found out that they were correct.

VCHA could have you banned and your power of attorney and representation agreement revoked based on collateral (snowflake) gossip without even telling you aforehand.  The PGT is supposed to be independent but it does what VCHA tells it.

I was talking to a resident from George Pearson Centre recently and was told that no one complains as they will be punished.  The only problem with that reasoning is that if patients are compliant then it is easier to kill them.

And now I have been told (November 8, 2019) that I have to pay advanced costs in the amount of $16,000 by December 31 2019 to VCHA/PGT or my application/case against the health authority and the PGT cannot go forward. So what is the point. You do the right thing and you are blocked by lack of money.   I will never get a court decision. It is called security for costs. 

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I also would like you to listen to minutes 2 to 10 on YouTube which will tell you that DNRs could hasten your death. What Does that DNR Really Mean? Dr. F. Mararchi.  Posted June 29 2019.

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DNRs are dangerous for patients with pneumonia, trauma, strokes, vascular problems and other treatable conditions, according to studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. An analysis of California hospitals published found that patients had higher death rates in hospitals that encourage DNRs.  My take is that if a patient cannot be encouraged then they coerce patients to agree to a DNR.  VCHA never tells a patient why a DNR is dangerous.