Owen

I can't get over Owen, Randy's little terri-poo, not wanting to eat unless I feed him by a spoon. 

The Good Wife

Yesterday I was watching the Good Wife on the television.  A segment was about the Good Wife being on a panel that overlooked the behavior of police.  It was rubber stamping the actions of the police without full evidence.  It reminded me of how the College of Physicians and Surgeons conducted my complaint against Dr. Dunne. They took his version of my complaint without investigating it.

There was also a documentary on the Fifth Estate (CBC) called Dead Enough which documented the actions of doctors in a US hospital who changed a monitor to deceive the nurses in order to secure fresh organs.  And nothing happened to those doctors either. 

So much for watching television and having flashbacks to what happened to me at the hands of Vancouver Coastal Health. 

No Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation/support and comfort only

I tried to find the No Cardiiopulmonary Resuscitation form as directed on the form being www.health.gov.bc.ca/exforms/bcas/302.1fil.pdf.  It wasn't there.  However I found it at www2.gov.bc.ca Forms for Medical and Health Care Practioners under miscellaneous form #3021 No Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (PDF, 675KB). 

What concerns me is the declaration signed by the patient:

I, the patient, understand and accept that I have been diagnosed as having a life-limiting illness or am considered to be at the natural end of my life and that my care is to include support and comfort only and that no cardiopulmonary resuscitation is to be undertaken. 

What does this mean.  Does this mean that a patient refuses agressive medical treatment when he agrees to a DNR.
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The Selection Process 1938-1945

A selection process of who will die was implemented by the Nazi doctors as they too had to sign a document not signed by the patient..At first the patient had to agree but later he was not consulted. It wasn't the SS who corralled prisoners and killed them indiscriminately, it was the doctors who selected them on medical grounds (killing to heal) therefore it was legal. The SS bureaucracy wanted the slave prisoners to work; they did not want them dead. . History repeating itself.

Reference:  Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, The Nazi Doctors, by Dr. Robert J. Lifton, 561 pages (2000AD)

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Patients Donot have to agree to DNRs.

I have to keep educating any new audience as to why this nightmare is happening.  Although the BCMA has a DNR form called "No Cardioipulmonary Resuscitation" form for the general public, it has to be signed by the patient.

However, Vancouver Coastal Health has its own "laws" and a form that says only a doctor has to sign a DNR.  No patient; no surrogate; no witness.  So whatever I speak I speak with the truth as I have experienced it.


11:15 a.m. postscript:
I just read the instructions to patient/family attached to the BCMA form it states If you live in a residential care facility (GPC), your doctor and care team will help you and/or your legal representative to make choices and plans abut the end of life.  Dr. Dunne would put on a DNR and he would never include me in the conversation.  And to think the social worker who is an officer of the court would not tell me as well. I was Randy's substitute decision maker and I should have been aware.  At the bottom of the form it says that it was developed in conjunction with the BCMA.  The form was issued by the Ministry of Health for British Columbia which I would speculate would mean that it is a government legal directive.

The form can be found at https://www.health.gov.bc.ca/exforms/bcas/302.1fil.pdf

The Decision of the College of Physicians and Surgeons

When I posted that the College said that Dr. Dunne did no wrong re the illegal DNR Order of November 2013, the pertinent wording was:

"Because of the confidential health information of Mr. Walker formed the basis for the Committee's discussion, we are not able to disclose details of the Committee's decision. We are able to advise you that the Committee was not critical of the medical care Dr. Dunne provided to Mr. Walker.  However, the Committee was critical of Dr. Dunne's medical documentation.  This matter is considered concluded."

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