In what some are saying is an effort to save money and available beds in the UK’s state-run health care system, a doctor has revealed that sick children are being placed on controversial “death pathways” previously used only for the elderly and terminally-ill adults.
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British Man Killed by Mistake in UK Hospice
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a bizarre example of life under a government-run health care program, a British woman has settled a lawsuit with the hospice that mistakenly killed her husband after erroneously concluding that his stomach cancer had returned and applying official guidelines that required the removal of his feeding tube and cessation of care.
