Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network

January 17 2020


Another year has come and gone—and with it another year of patients and families in crisis, seeking assistance. This is the result of physicians notifying families that they are denying life-affirming care to their loved one
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Sadly, there is no end in sight to an increasing utilitarian worldview towards medically weak patients, while at the same time, traumatizing families who are trying to provide appropriate treatment.

Make no mistake, hospital administrators are pressuring physicians to contain cost. Consequently, patients who were once afforded routine medical therapies are now being denied that same care. In other words, whether a patient receives or doesn’t receive certain treatment can be decided by health care economics.

All life is inherently valuable, and patients, more than anything, need time to recover, something hospital administrators, often times are unwilling to provide.


Bobby Schindler
Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network 


John Hopkins (2018): medical errors are the third leading cause of death.