McGuinty Fib gov't slouching towards Bethlehem?

Christina Blizzard of the Toronto Sun has been writing about how the McGuinty Liberals are gutting the Ontario health care system.

I think this Do Not Resuscitate Confirmation form my friend found must be part of the "cost cutting". Let's kill the elderly, they cost too much.

Interesting point from my chum's research - this DNR form does not appear to have been passed as part of any law. It was developed by the Ontario Palliative Care Association - has a big Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care logo on it (how can it be healthy or long-term care when the form kills you?) - but it doesn't appear to have any legal standing.

This DNR form wasn't developed for hospitals and nursing homes, but to protect paramedics. It can be signed by someone with limited medical training and no professional qualification to determine a patient's competence, no notice is given to the family, and the patient dies.

So, if your family or friends are admitted to hospital, be sure to search their medical charts and make sure someone hasn't stuck a DNR form on the person.

Scary $hit everywhere. Apparently people in the UK in their 60's are getting substandard care because they're "too old". Same thing is creeping into the system here.

What ya don't know will kill ya.

Makes me want to hurl.

According to TV Stevie on Rogers.com, television producers have approached Michael Vick to star in a reality show.

Unless this program shows Vick being drowned, slammed repeatedly on the ground and electrocuted, I will boycott any advertiser stupid enough to sign on for this. If it shows on Spike or A&E, I will cancel that portion of my cable television subscription.

Are you listening, Rogers, Spike, A&E, and any big-name advertisers?

Support the challenge of an unjust and unfounded law!

Taking the challenge of the Ontario "Liberals" "pit bull" ban to the Supreme Court has brought out the usual tiresome uninformed hysterics, members of the mob carrying torches to find the monster. These rhetoric-spouting hysterics miss the point, as does mainstream media which is responsible for much of the hysteria due to its pursuit of bottom line profit.

The dogs are a red herring. This is the Ontario "Liberal" government's first attempt to gradually whittle away every citizen's Charter rights.

If the Fibs had tried this in different decades, different breeds would have been banned. German Shepherds, Rottweilers or Doberman pinschers would have been banned as they were all in turn the "monsters" of their decade.

This law makes responsible, law-abiding people into second-class citizens based on the property they own - their dogs.

If you have any care for your Charter rights and freedoms, you will support this case financially.

A note about quotes. I put "Liberals" in quotes because Dalton McGuinty and his squad of minions are about as liberal as duct tape across your mouth or cable ties around your wrists. And "pit bull" is in quotes because it's slang - verbal shorthand that is used for any stocky, short haired dog. There ain't no such thang, folks.

Here's something from the Ontario Appeals Court decision that should scare the $hit out of any thinking person:

"The Appeals Court determined that the government does not require determinative scientific evidence of dangerousness before acting."

Here's my take on that. If the government's public approval rating is falling like a stone (as was the Ontario Liberals' approval rating at the time), the government can whip up a media storm (using our tax dollars to do that) and pass legislation that oppresses law-abiding citizens, without any proof for its actions.

Ontario is not a democracy. The Ontario Appeals Court decision cemented that belief for me.

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Don't get admitted to Toronto East General Hospital!

A friend whose elderly mother recently spent some time at Toronto East General Hospital had numerous experiences with substandard nursing care and found a Do Not Resuscitate form buried in her mother’s papers. I’ve reproduced the form in a previous post. Beware. Paperwork will kill you, in more ways than one.

My friend wrote a three-page letter to the board of directors of Toronto East General Hospital instructing that the DNR form be destroyed, and setting out the many instances of substandard care.

My friend is being ignored by the Toronto East General Hospital administration. She is furious for several reasons.

1. This form was not signed by the patient nor by my friend, who has power of attorney over her elderly mother’s health care. In fact, my friend was not even advised by the hospital of the existence of this form. Toronto East General just snuck it into the paperwork.

2. This form was signed by a registered nurse. A registered nurse is not qualified to judge a patient’s mental competence. That is a psychiatrist’s job. A registered nurse is also not qualified to determine a patient’s diagnosis or prognosis. That is a physician’s job. So how does a hospital justify having a nurse sign a death order on a patient?

3. Worse, this form could be signed by a registered practical nurse; someone with a couple of semesters of training at secondary school level. Would you want that person deciding your mental competence, and the length of your life?

4. Despite writing every member of the board of directors of Toronto East General Hospital, my friend got back a meaningless form letter that attempts to push her off to the “Patient Relations Consultant”. Ya, you’d better be patient if you deal with that new level of bureaucracy. I’ve dealt with them personally, which was an utter waste of the finite time of my life. ‘Nuff said.

5. Ooh, there will be an investigation of the substandard care. Right. Yay. Whoopdeedoo.

6. One director wrote my friend claiming that the Hospital’s President and CEO is “talented”. If this CEO is so talented, how could he miss the big paragraph in my friend’s letter instructing that the DNR form be destroyed? Oh, I forgot. He probably didn’t read my friend’s letter, or the form letter he signed, or the faxes she sent subsequently that he ignores.

My friend’s mother served in the Armed Forces in the Second World War. This lady helped preserve the freedoms we take for granted, including those of the board of directors of Toronto East General Hospital and the nurse who signed her death warrant. The lady’s life should not be ended at someone’s whim, with the underhanded use of a form that the lady didn’t sign, and her substitute decision maker didn’t sign, didn’t see and wasn’t told about.

Whatever you do, don’t get admitted to Toronto East General Hospital. Caring and compassion, my ass.

This is medical care under McGuinty and his Fiberal minions in Ontario. Substandard, and a hospital can sign a form to kill you off so you won’t jack up their already-high mortality statistics.

Can we get DNR forms signed on McGuinty and Co.? Could be the best thing that ever happened to this province.

I wonder how Dalton McGuinty would feel if he found a DNR form buried in his mother’s papers? Or Furious George Smitherman, if he found a DNR form for his partner buried in papers?

Bet’cha those DNR forms would be destroyed in a New York minute. Ah, it’s good to be the king.

But the average person doesn’t stand a chance in McGuinty’s Onscario.

BEWARE! Especially if you have an elderly parent!

If you have a relative in one of Ontario's hospitals, beware the Do Not Resuscitate Confirmation Form.

It may be signed by a doctor, registered nurse or registered practical nurse - the last to my mind being a nurse's aide - without any signature of the patient or a substitute decision maker.

This form could kill your relative. Or you.

Is this how Ontario hospitals with high mortality rates are dealing with their bad stats? Let 'em die in the ambulance rather than in the hospital? Sure smells like it to me.

Thanks to the Ontario Fibs, especially McSquinty and Furious George, for a form that allows a stranger to decree one's death.