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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apologies if this has been brought up already but I am bothered by them having the dying woman in the ER. Wouldn’t they have moved her to hospice? Who would want to die peacefully in an ER? And isn’t the bed needed?[/quote]

Completely unrealistic when they need the beds, its a holiday and they are taking patients from another shut down hospital. This is not an emergency.[/quote]

I don't know, that is basically how my FIL died. In an ER room, on a morphine drip, waiting for a bed "upstairs". Like Roxy, he'd been at home being cared for by family but they were on the brink of putting him in hospice (the issue in his case was the reverse of Roxy's -- he didn't want to go but MIL knew she could not care for him anymore) when he fell getting out of bed and was taken to the ER. Like Roxy, that's where he died hours later. And yes, it is incredibly hard on the family to be going through that in an ER, and no it is not an ideal place for someone to die. End of life care in the US is deeply imperfect and it's challenging for families to navigate the financial, emotional, and practical logistics of someone's last days of life. My husband is still pretty traumatize by watching is dad die in that setting. My heart is breaking for Roxy's sons, having to process what is happening while in the middle of a busy ED.

The most unrealistic thing for me is that McKay and Javadi are essentially dedicated to Roxy at this point, administering all her care and McKay even having time to talk to Roxy's older son. Our experience was that we felt essentially forgotten by most of the ER staff except for one nurse, and it was a specialist from oncology who was actually putting in orders and explaining what was happening, but that person also kept disappearing and was not actually present when he died.[/quote]

Very similar scenario here with DH’s father.  [/quote]

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