No matter what the intention the dosage of Pavulon was too high, and it was concealed. IT was a Paralyzing drug in an overdose amount no matter what...no matter what they chose not to disclose this error or correct it and they chose not to disclose that she was given a paralytic drug to begin with. No matter what the bottom line is the bottom line. Rantings aside....what happened was wrong.

Emergency Rooms still full

What concerns me when I close my eyes at night is a picture I cannot shake. Its an Emergency Room. In the Emergency Room I see my mother sick, dryed out standing glossy eyed with at least a thousand other patients...My mother may be gone but even now the Emergency Rooms and Doctors Offices are jam packed with Patients who think Doctors have all the answers. Patients who rush to the Emergency Rooms with Mounds of emotional pain that they keep trying to treat physically. I mean isn't that really the bottom line anyway for my mother and Michael Jackson?? Their emotional pain that never got treated that they never got relief from? A doctor should be able to discern the difference. He should be able to take enough time with his clients to be able to see what really needs to be treated. Lets face it they don't have all the answers or even half the answers. Most of the time you can only get a clear diagnosis if they get lucky or if you walk in with your severed limb in your hands. What makes me sick is how doctors have become predators pushing their meds. I take meds. I have issues with my health I am in no way saying do not see a doctor or see a good one...I am saying be involved in your healthcare. Know what you are taking and check on loved ones you suspect have gotten dragged in...Kennewick General is one hospital you dont want to be at ...in it you are no longer human no longer have rights...and obviously they don't handle health care straight up find out the ones in your area that do. How many people are going to die this year? How many people will die while a doctor hides behind their corpse? How many hospitals will look the other way when they know they are wrong because paying a dollar and admitting a mistake is far more important to them than the loss and dignity of anothers life?? How long will we tolerate physicians who work for us and get paid by us "PLAYING DOCTOR" when we will change and expect better for ourselves People are going to die this year at the hands of a doctor or hospital maybe both...I'll say it again they are packed with people wanting relief from physical pain who end up dead. Glossy eyed walking dead people not understanding the thing they are going to lose is their life...that what they are forfeiting in and effort to feel better is their health. Pills have consequences. Blind trust in a doctor who has not earned it is stupidity. We should have a national roster set up for Doctors to have their mugs posted on to warn future patients we should be able to see in a ten year time period just how many of their patients died what drugs were used, how their ailments were treated...as a consumer just like reading the label on a jar of peanut butter all the ingredients should be posted. We have the right to know.

ITS TIME TO SAY 'ENOUGH'

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Euthinized

Euthanasia protocol
See also: Lethal injection#Euthanasia protocol

A euthanasia device invented by Dr Philip Nitschke that facilitated euthanasia through heavy doses of drugs. The laptop screen led the user through a series of steps and questions to ensure he or she was fully prepared. The machine in a museum.
Euthanasia can be accomplished either through an oral, intravenous, or intramuscular administration of drugs, or by oxygen deprivation (anoxia), as in some euthanasia machines. In individuals who are incapable of swallowing lethal doses of medication, an intravenous route is preferred. The following is a Dutch protocol for parenteral (intravenous) administration to obtain euthanasia:
Intravenous administration is the most reliable and rapid way to accomplish euthanasia. A coma is first induced by intravenous administration of 20 mg/kg sodium thiopental (Nesdonal) in a small volume (10 ml physiological saline). Then a triple intravenous dose of a non-depolarizing neuromuscular muscle relaxant is given, such as 20 mg pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) or 20 mg vecuronium bromide (Norcuron). The muscle relaxant should preferably be given intravenously, in order to ensure optimal availability. Only for pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) are there substantial indications that the agent may also be given intramuscularly in a dosage of 40 mg.[58]
With regards to nonvoluntary euthanasia, the cases where the person could consent but was not asked are often viewed differently from those where the person could not consent. Some people raise issues regarding stereotypes of disability that can lead to non-disabled or less disabled people overestimating the person's suffering, or assuming it to be unchangeable when it could be changed. For example, many disability rights advocates responded to Tracy Latimer's murder by pointing out that her parents had refused a hip surgery that could have greatly reduced or eliminated the physical pain Tracy experienced. Also, they point out that a severely disabled person need not be in emotional pain at their situation, and claim that the emotional pain, if present, is due to societal prejudice rather than the disability, analogous to a person of a particular ethnicity wanting to die because they have internalized negative stereotypes about their ethnic background. Another example of this is Keith McCormick, a New Zealander Paralympian who was "mercy-killed" by his caregiver, and Matthew Sutton.[59][60]
With regards to voluntary euthanasia, many people argue that 'equal access' should apply to access to suicide as well, so therefore disabled people who cannot kill themselves should have access to voluntary euthanasia.

SHE SAID 'NO' HER RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED AND SHE DIED PEACEFULLY AND WAS REVIVED BY DR JAMES NEWMAN TO DIE VIOLENTLY...KENNEWICK GENERAL HOSPITAL VIOLATED THIS WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE HER TREATMENT THEY VIOLATED HER RIGHT TO DIE WITH DIGNITY, AND THEN THEY BILLED MEDICARE FOR THE TREATMENT SHE REFUSED...YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE USED TO ABUSE AND RIP OFF THE ELDERLY

Change.Gov

I just wrote President elect Obama with my story and my mothers story. You can contact him at the link below with your story, just click on the link and add your story. I am excited about the changes he is wanting to make in the healthcare system...click on the link and listen to his weekly address.


I so agree with the changes here is Mr.President I agree with you about changes in the healthcare system. I watched for the first time this morning your address and got so excited to see the direction you are going. The healthcare system depsperatley needs to be computerized. My mother died on May 9th 2008 two days before mothers day. She had died peacefully in dialysis, but there was a question about the DNR. The staff did not know whether or not to follow the 2006 polst form or 2007 DNR. SHe was revived. Taken to Kennewick General Hospital in Kennewick Wa the doctor, James Newman ignored my sister telling him about the DNR ignored my mothers doctor Dr Ang who he called, apparently never opened her chart since the DNR was signed at their hospital in Nov 2007. When she started to move and cough (according to her charts)the doctor gave her a paralytic drug, like the one they give death row inmates. No pain killer , no sedative. He just paralyzed her to cover his mistake. Then he did not disclose it to the family we found out later from the charts, my sister had picked them up before they could be altered. They have the drug Pavulon listed as a sedative when it is a pralyzing drug. A person can be coherant, unable to breathe, cough, blink, express pain...then 10 hours later they told us after they had overdosed her on this drug that they had to honor her wishes in the DNR and unplug her. My mother was tortured, battered, and abused for ten hours prior to being allowed to die.HOW YOU DIE MATTERS!!!!! If the charts were electronically sent immediatly to DOH it would make chart altering impossible. And if the laws were changed to where reviving a DNR was considered Murder, BECAUSE YOU ARE NO LONGER UNPLUGGING A DEAD PATIENT BUT A LIVE ONE, doctors and staff would take the time to read the charts of their patients. And billing Medicare for services patients have taken the time to say no to in advance would be impossible. We pay billions every year. When I contacted rep. Herreras office I was told a DNR isn't worth the paper it's written on. That needs to change. We pay in to Medicare and medicaid and take part in the abuse of the elderly and the rape of medicare. Hospitals do not get paid for dead people, and dead people can't talk. No one should have to die like my mother did. She was poor, living in public housing, she had copd, diabetes, kidney failure, had a heart attack in nov 2007 that left her with about 40 percent of her heart working...she should never have been revived to begin with it was medically futile. My mother hated pain, and I loved her deeply...she was robbed of her peaceful natural death, to be revived to be tortured, it has to stop. When I contacted the DOH they said they know the records get changed and the staff gets briefed to cover things up, but they can't catch them. Tax payers are paying to take part in Medicare Fraud. It has to be fraud if a patient says NO> I have a blog at www.yourrighttosayno.blogspot.com/ with my mothers story. Everyone matters, no one should have to die like that. Electronic charting would create greater accountability for doctors and less errors medically. It breaks my heart how my mother died. She had her No and her voice stripped away...when she was moving was she trying to say no, or stop? It just crushes me, my heart for her and her death was peace. In long term illness you feel so helpless anyway, as a family we just wanted a peaceful transition to joining Jesus. And doctors like James Newman, or Kennewick General appear to have more power than family, they came in and did what they wanted to do with my mother. They didn't even follow her polst form because it calls for pain medication and treatment, they never offered her anything, they slapped her on a ventilator...then doctor Newman gave her an overdose of Pavulon in her system it would not have left her body without dialysis, and it would have accumulated causing an overdose. They told us she was brain damaged from lack of oxygen from a heart attack...not that she was displaying overdose symptoms. THE POWER SHOULD NEVER BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE PATIENT. Every person should count, every voice, every NO UP UNTIL SHE DREW HER LAST BREATH SHE WAS A HUMAN LIVING BEING THAT DESERVED COURTESY AND RESPECT. She was poor and on Medicare she should have recieved the same treatment as anyone else. Her life mattered, and her life counted. It is a tragedy in America that elderly are so mistreated. That the dying are so mistreated and that the medical field is so corrupt. If it doesn't change on the inside of the system starting with the doctors, nurses, and hospitals, no amount of revamping the system is going to make a difference. Doctors should not get paid for patients that have a DNR anywhere on file. That should be against the law, there are too many loopholes. That DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER SHOULD PROTECT PATIENT RIGHTS NOT THE DOCTORS RIGHTS...IT SHOULD BE MORE VALUABLE THAN THE PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON...A HUMAN LIFE SHOULD BE MORE VALUABLE