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There is a huge unspoken blind spot for a terminal hospice patient. The medicine cabinet just opens up. My dad asked the doctor exactly how much of what he shou
by delichon 3mo ago
There is a huge unspoken blind spot for a terminal hospice patient. The medicine cabinet just opens up. My dad asked the doctor exactly how much of what he shouldn't take if he didn't want a quick easy death, and the doctor just told him. He didn't end up using it but it was a comfort to him.
- Loughla 3mo agoThe amount of morphine available to the patients on hospice that I have known has made it very clear what the actual intent of those scripts is. Granted, my sample size of 6 isn't great, and 3 were in terrible pain so it made sense for them, but they had ALL the opiates. . . One had liquid injectable morphine in case he couldn't swallow. He had no issues with swallowing and wasn't in pain. I wanted to ask the doctor if the intent was to allow a calm end, but chickened out.
- DANmode 3mo agoOpen secret. Cowardice of the system, society, that doesn’t allow practitioners to discuss this. Leads to scary grey areas, actually.
- lostlogin 3mo ago> Cowardice of the system, society, that doesn’t allow practitioners to discuss this. This depends on where one lives. Where I am (New Zeland), the arguments getting it into law were pretty grim.
- gopher_space 3mo agoAmazing how frequently people die after they’re turned over right when the family is all together. Amazing and appreciated.
- gammalost 3mo agoI do not know how it is in other countries, but in Sweden hospice is for a calm end. You are dying regardless