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 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
Concerns of medication mismanagement or...
"And she was mad. And she said, this is why we don't want them to eat when they're on morphine......
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied alternative treatments + Gaslighting + Isolation of victim + Neglect + Perception of malevolence + Pervasive sense of wrongdoing
The victims discuss being pressured...
"In in Westchester, at some point when we went there, they wanted us to sign a DNR. I don't know...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + DNR pressure or shenanigans + 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
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 describes feeling pressured...
"It yep. It was towards the end of her her stay. I did sign it after they explained to me...
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
Evidence of coercive circumstances and...
"And so that's how I basically got my way up there... they said, yeah. And then once I said, well,...
Other Commonalities: Denied informed consent + Isolation of victim + 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
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 mentions that she was...
"They had forgotten to tell me during that time period since I couldn't visit. They were allowing Zoom calls, but...
Other Commonalities: Denied informed consent
The statement highlights the perceived...
"Absolutely. I think that the way in which the entirety of the the nation's handling of, COVID nineteen, the protocols...
Other Commonalities: Dehumanization + Denied informed consent + Isolated even in death + Isolation of victim + Neglect + Strict adherence to EUA protocols