Palliative care pressure Clips
Victim and family pressured into palliative care, comfort care or hospice. Family denied participation in the Palliative Care Consult Meeting. Palliative care ordered without consent.
Victim discusses a sense of...
"I'm so upset with myself for not fighting him on it. Like, we knew better, but I saw him, and...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Gaslighting
Victim discusses being pressured into...
"And my husband said, well, you know, yes. Because, well, then you need a vent. And we had always said...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + DNR pressure or shenanigans + Neglect
The victim describes being denied...
"they said he was terminal. [...] I had to agree to comfort care, whatever that yeah. Comfort care. And that...
Other Commonalities: Isolation of victim
Victim mentions the use of...
"not only ventilated him, but they also paralyzed him with fentanyl. So he was on fentanyl while he was sick.
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Neglect + Strict adherence to EUA protocols
The victim recounts how the...
"And at that point, there I said, do you suction? What do you do? And they said, there's nothing we...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied alternative treatments + Denied informed consent + Isolation of victim + Neglect + Perception of malevolence
Evidence of pressure into hospice...
"And they said, the only way you could see her, if you do hospice... I, you know, put her on...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Isolation of victim + Neglect + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing
Evidence of lying or dishonesty...
"the doctor said, we just want you to know that if his oxygen doesn't come up and his heartbeat don't...
Other Commonalities: Denied informed consent + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing + Refusal of transfer + Strict adherence to EUA protocols
The victim indicates that the...
"And if we could put him on a vent, it would give his lungs a rest... If you don't, you're...
Other Commonalities: Denied informed consent + Non-emergency ventilation + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing + Strict adherence to EUA protocols
The victim’s husband was told...
"you know, he said that he was obviously right there advocating for me. Doctors were consistently telling him that I...
Other Commonalities: DNR pressure or shenanigans + Gaslighting + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing + Strict adherence to EUA protocols
Evidence of lying or dishonesty...
"And Ben then, I he said something, and I said, you just contradicted your he's oh, I said, why'd you...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Gaslighting + Neglect + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing
The victim describes being pressured...
"They they said they wanted me to do a DNR on him, and I didn't wanna do that. But they...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + DNR pressure or shenanigans
Denial of informed consent: The...
"I said, you can put her if she's really in pain. It's still a respiratory depressant, but I said you...
Other Commonalities: Denied alternative treatments + Denied informed consent + Perception of malevolence