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New-Negotiation7234 t1_j4yyfq9 wrote
Reply to comment by golear in [OC] US Opioid overdose deaths from 1999 to 2018 by hcrx
I wanna know but I don’t wanna know anymore bad things.
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Reply to comment by Petal_Chatoyance in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Insurance companies control everything.
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Reply to comment by Petal_Chatoyance in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Dying at a hospital isn’t profitable either… hospitals do not want to keep you there to do.
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Reply to comment by Jolly-Leek6809 in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Extremely depressing. People don’t understand how much pain and suffering happens because of futile measures to keep ppl alive. Also the lack of basic understanding and science. For example someone I talked to recently had a friend that had a very rare form of anal cancer. No one has ever survived with this cancer but her friend was determined. People don’t understand it’s not just the primary type of cancer you have but what stage it is that makes it incurable.
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Reply to comment by hear4theDough in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Insurance dictates how much money is given to the hospital based on a diagnostic code. For example pneumonia is 2.9 days so the hospital gets that amount of money if the patient is admitted for 2 days or 20. Also, insurances do not cover 30 day readmits. So it’s not really the hospital. They make money on surgeries
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Reply to comment by nucleophilicattack in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
“We believe in miracles”. Your family member has zero quality of live, is brain damaged, can’t breath on their own, has tubes stuck in them, can’t eat but yeah let’s keep waiting on that miracle
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Reply to comment by balancedinsanity in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Yep these conversations take so much time and providers just do not have it.
New-Negotiation7234 t1_j4yn044 wrote
Reply to comment by dvdmaven in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
But “god” already decided a long time ago
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Reply to comment by EatTheBiscuitSam in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
Yep and then unless you have Medicaid your room abs board is not covered. Often leaves family and patients with no options.
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Reply to comment by No_big_whoop in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
After working in health care I now have a very detailed living will and POA and everyone close to me knows my wishes. I have seen the horrors and torture families put their loved ones through. No thanks.
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Reply to comment by justme_mb in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga
What I put in my living will is to have no artificial nutrition (tpn, tube feeding) if I am in a permanent altered mental status, dementia, or in a coma etc. The artificial nutrition is given wayyyy too often for no benefit to the person and it’s what keeps people alive. Also, once it is started it becomes VERY difficult for family members to take people off of it because they then feel like they are starving them and killing them. Not eating is a natural part of the death process.