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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