tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post3065063667771669172..comments2023-11-15T07:14:06.265+00:00Comments on Catholic Action UK: ACW Anti-Euthanasia CardUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post-31603008054070585972007-08-24T06:44:00.000+01:002007-08-24T06:44:00.000+01:00Having worked in the medical field as an EMT and i...Having worked in the medical field as an EMT and in 3 NYC area hospitals for over twelve years, I can attest to the fact that many hospitals employ DRG- Diagnostic Related Grouping. In fact, this forms the basis for deciding who lives-and who does NOT! I have seen care for the extremely elderly withheld because of a lack of insurance balanced out against a "quality of life" formula that can only pass for bad medicine if one strtches the meaning of the word to include homicide. <BR/> Unfortunately, we live in an age in which doctors and hospitals need to have their noses "held in the mess" forcibly and made to smell their own stench. It must be done by anyone with a conscience who is at hand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com