Quality of Life and Medical Malpractice
Special Report from the Creative Youth News Team

 1/20/09

"Quality of life" is the catch phrase used by doctors planning to kill patients.  When a family member hears those words, the CYNT suggests calling the police.  The term is most often used with respect to elderly patients, who could make a full or near-full recovery with proper medical treatment.

A good example was Elizabeth Young, an 85-year old admitted to Western Medical Center for complaints of pains in her neck and knee.  Unfortunatly, Betty caught one of those hospital infections.  Even worse, doctors decided to do experimental surgery and Betty had difficulty returning to full alertness following the surgery.  The problems were blamed on an in-hospital infection.  Her EEG showed full brain function and her family was told she had a 50/50 chance of making a full recovery.  Her 84 year old sister was told, "Hospital beds are for the young," and that the hospital wanted to terminate Betty.  There was difficulty reaching Betty's daughter, and the hospital was in a hurry to get the bed cleared.  Betty had Medicare and Blue Cross insurance, but that apparently didn't pay enough.  Day after day, the hospital called the sister and tried to pressure her into allowing them to kill the sister.  Finally, the daughter was reached and the family, including extended family, jointly spoke with the doctors.  They were informed that, though there was a 50/50 chance that Betty would make a full recovery, she would have a better quality of life "DEAD."  The doctor pointed out that she was diabetic and that diabetics have a poorer quality of life than dead people.  The family informed the doctor that they wanted Betty treated and they wanted to see her recover.  The doctor made it clear that a different standard would be used on Betty than on a younger person and that this made it unlikely she would recover.  The family tried to talk the hospital personnel and doctor into providing the kind of treatment that would allow for a full recovery.  Nothing would persuade the doctors to do the right thing.  Though the doctors were not allowed to officially kill Betty, they did not appear to do much to save her life.  Some time later, her heart stopped and the family doubted the doctors did anything to save her.  This story is relived by families at hospitals all around America.  No suits are filed because any recovery, under current malpractice laws, is almost non-existent in the case of an elderly patient.  Doctors believe, and rightly so, that they can kill elderly patients with no negative consequences.

So who really killed Betty and similarly-situated elderly patients?  The obvious answer is that it was the doctors and the hospitals.  A better answer would be that it is each and every American who has supported limits on medical malpractice recovery.  Another good answer is that the guilt lies in each legislator who doesn't fight for a not-for-profit health care system in America.  The doctors, in Betty's case, made it clear that there was more profit in younger patients.  Killing the elderly for profit should be a crime in America. 

Since the elderly are being treated as dogs, let's look at dogs.  How many pet owners have been told that their pet would have a better "quality of life" dead?  How many pet owners question veterninarians who want to kill dogs and profit from killing of dogs? Recently, we reported on Obi-Wan Kenobi, a six year old Eskie, whose over-priced useless medical treatment did nothing to help her.  Then the vets who did nothing effective with the thousands they have already received, wanted to kill Obi-Wan.  The vet used the standard phrase, "Quality of life."  Obi-Wan's human family didn't buy it and demanded that Obi-Wan be saved.  While the family wasn't able to save her, Obi-Wan died days later in her warm bed with friends nearby - instead of at a cold animal hospital, staffed with people who wanted her dead.

What is the quality of life after death?  Have doctors and veterninarians gone into death to do scientific research to make a factual determination as to whether life is better over there than in this world?  Does religion play into the doctors' and veterinarians' claims to know in which world the quality of life is best?  Which religion?  If the doctors and veterinarians have gone to the other side and found out which religion is correct, wouldn't that be the religion to join?  Or is the phrase, "quality of life," just a phrase that pardons doctors and veterinarians for acts of murder? 

Perhaps, the new defense at murder trials should be use of the phrase, "quality of life."    If accused murderers were immediately exonerated by uttering these three words, court caseloads would be reduced.  Perhaps, everyone on death row could be released after uttering these words.  That would save the state lots of money and actually save lives.  After all, if doctors can do it, why not other serial killers?  Of course, this might be unfair to the innocent people on death row, who couldn't admit to what they didn't do.  Wrongful convictions are the subject for another article.

In the meantime, when you hear those three words, be aware someone wants to make a kill.  Will the next "quality of life" victim be you or someone close to you?

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