Thursday, October 18, 2012

Deat Panels: Coming To A Health Care Center Near You?

(UK)  "...GPs have been asked to select one in every 100 of their patients to go on a list of those likely to die over the next 12 months. The patients will be singled out for ‘end-of-life care’,  potentially saving the NHS more than £1billion a year. The listed patients may be asked to say where they would prefer to die and should be told they can draw up a ‘living will’ by which they can instruct doctors to withdraw life-saving treatment if they become incapacitated in hospital..."  MORE ...

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