tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post8153264571115432501..comments2023-03-30T05:27:28.532-07:00Comments on Flat Out: An Absence of EthicsDavidGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-71057839368539112622013-08-23T07:40:25.796-07:002013-08-23T07:40:25.796-07:00I find these ethics journals have turned into litt...I find these ethics journals have turned into little more than a way for eugenecists to exchange possible defences to avoid murder charges...epecially over the Liverpool Care Pathway of late...they can withdraw food as a 'choking risk', withdraw fluids as 'a pneumonia risk', withdraw monitoring arterial gases for CO build up as 'too invasive and painful',disconnect a perfectly functional cardiac defibrillator as 'the shocks it gives are painful'..and .then thwack you full of diamorphine/midazolam/cyclizine, all in the same syringe driver (reckless prescribing likely to induce a heart attack and suppress your breathing, according to the british national formulary) under the guise of 'care' :) You are quite right to be concerned ....they're just culling the disabled and high maitenance patients to save money...but as with the nazis,it has to look like 'care'....Who Let Binding and Hoche back into Medicine????https://www.blogger.com/profile/00541156089092672817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-28909780178504802582013-08-22T07:17:51.365-07:002013-08-22T07:17:51.365-07:00An editorial from 2005 illustrates that contempt f...An editorial from 2005 illustrates that contempt for the concerns of disabled people over eugenics from the editors at the Journal of Medical Ethics wasn't some flash in the pan http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303503.htmlDavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-5504103065259598022013-08-22T07:14:10.443-07:002013-08-22T07:14:10.443-07:00A late update with a link to the JME blog discussi...A late update with a link to the JME blog discussion where I tried to get a bio-ethicist to understand why disabled people are concerned: http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2012/03/05/some-responses-to-giubilini-and-minerva/<br /><br />Utter communications fail, apparently we don't even have a right to be concerned when something explicitly defines us as sub-human (both eugenics and infantilisation in action!)DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.com