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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a fine line between “palliative” care and “healing” care. If a given condition is causing pain, discomfort or distress, it should be ameliorated even if that can only be done at a hospital. There’s also a fine line between letting nature take its course and hurrying things along. Not everybody in the end of life business is as sensitive as they should be to those distinctions.
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You just revealed that you have no real experience or training in hospice care.

No, the hospice patient doesn’t go to the hospital - PERIOD. Pain, discomfort and distress are treated in situ at the hospice facility or in the home if they are in home based hospice. Provision of morphine for these issues is standard in hospice care. Hospice patients DO NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WISH TO DIE IN THE HOSPITAL. Period.

I have been working hospice for 8 years now. I have had a number of elderly patients who were on hospice status for more than a year before passing away, it is not unusual because unlike hospice patients with cancer or some other terminal illness, they can take a long time to succumb to CHF or whatever other end of life issues they are suffering from.[/quote]

My loved one was in hospice care for the first time in at least a year.  They pulled out as she improved because of their support and they could not justify it to medicare any longer.  As soon as they pulled out, she declined quickly and passed (we tried to bring them back but by the time they got set up again she passed).  End of life looks different for everyone.  We initially thought it was the end but it was quality of care that was initially the issue.  I wish she passed in a hospital as she would have gotten better care.[/quote]

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