Thursday, April 04, 2013

Respect the end of life

Compassion not profiteering from the end of life needed 

Human beings and their right of free will choice must be re-instated

A duty to guide patients through the process of death


As healthcare providers we are focused on life.  We are committed to healing.  We measure success by lives saved.  Unfortunately, many diseases remain incurable.  Some diagnoses do carry with them a death sentence in spite of the best that modern medicine has to offer.  Even in theses extremely devastating cases, We can still make a huge difference in the lives of our patients in the way in which we help them handle their own death.
Too often, treatments are prescribed which may have the effect of only prolonging suffering.  In some experimental chemotherapies, treatment may raise survival only a few percentage points.  As caregivers, we become so focused on changing the inevitable outcome that we often forget about one of the more important reasons we are treating our patients–to ease pain and suffering.  In the case of terminally ill patients, we can help shepherd them through the process of death.  Too often, however, we as healthcare providers are ill-equipped to tackle this task.

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