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.
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
The victim's condition worsened under...
"So I went over to soothe him, and I said, Kim, go get a nurse. So she went and got...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Neglect + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing + Unqualified staff
The family's perception that the...
"They knew. They knew she was going home, so they knew they had to do what they needed to do...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing
Evidence of DNR pressure and...
"They sort of manipulated us to without saying the words DNR, got us in place where, you know, if he...
Other Commonalities: DNR pressure or shenanigans + Gaslighting + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing
Pervasive sense of wrongdoing: The...
"when this one of the doctors, doctor Melody Shen, looked at us and says, I don't have time to call...
Other Commonalities: Denied alternative treatments + Denied informed consent + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing + Refusal of transfer
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 pressured...
"So throughout this meeting, I'm asking them what's gonna happen. What are you what is your plan? And they're telling...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing
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
Lying or Dishonesty: The victim...
"He over the phone says, your mom asked for morphine by name. She couldn't even open her eyes. She couldn't...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Isolated even in death + Neglect
The victim discusses being pressured...
"They were pressuring me to discontinue the life support. And at one point, this the nurse practitioner said, well, have...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + DNR pressure or shenanigans + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing
Victim discusses refusal of medications,...
"Only when the doctor heard that I didn't want the rodesivir.
Other Commonalities: Denied alternative treatments + Denied informed consent + Strict adherence to EUA protocols
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