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Dr. Mary Knowles, chair of "FIRST
DO NO HARM", the euthanasia action group of our Federation
was quoted in the Catholic Herald, (30 Aug 2002) commenting on
the new GMC guidelines: "It is a cruel act to condemn a
patient to death by dehydration, whether a more experienced clinician
advises so or not, yet it is proposed to subject seriously ill
patients to this violent mode of death" Dr. John Keet, a
consultant physician, described the practice as "deplorable",
and said it was disturbing for all concerned. "One sees
a patient in discomfort. Sometimes patients perk up inexplicably
in the course of being dehydrated and starved, and because one
has embarked on this policy it is very difficult to reverse it."
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