"DOCTORS KILLING PATIENTS" SURVEY

Commenting on press reports today of research published in the journal "Palliative Medicine", Dr. Richard Lamerton, Dame Cicely Saunders' first pupil in St. Joseph's Hospice in Hackney, said;

"Sociology Professors get in an awful muddle when they make medical statements. Professor Clive Seale thinks that controlling pain shortens someone's life. This is complete nonsense. Good pain control, by reducing stress, if anything enables people to live a little longer.

"The Professor also treats as the same, painful conditions like cancer where death may be inevitable, and geriatric problems like strokes, where death is by no means inevitable.

"Doctors deliberately dehydrating elderly people with strokes are more likely to be motivated by a need to save resources then by compassion. A caring team would set about rehabilitation."

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See Doctors 'help' 2 in 3 to die.
Original report - National survey of end-of-life decisions made by UK medical practitioners

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