I was watching a report the other day about how 90 % of
doctors die at home, while 90 % of regular folk die in the hospital.
Not exact matches
At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans
died in costly nursing
homes amid
doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the
dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»
I realize that
doctors can not save every child, however, having them
at home does not mean your child will
die either.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, even FDA - approved cardiorespiratory monitors — the kind
doctors prescribe for use
at home to detect apnea or abnormally low heart rates — have not been shown to save babies from
dying suddenly in their cribs.
He suffered a heart attack
at a party before being taken to the
home of collector Betty Asher (her husband was a
doctor), and
dying there, according to a recounting of the story by KCRW.
Briefly, David Gray was a retired electronic engineer aged 70 who
died at home on the evening of 16 February 2008 after Dr. Ubani, a Locum
doctor from Germany, administered a lethal dose of 100 mg of diamorphine as opposed to 10 mg because he did not understand UK drugs.
If a person
died at home, and has no next of kin or friends to arrange or pay for the funeral, had no money or other assets, and the coroner is not involved, when a
doctor has issued a medical certificate of cause of death, the police will complete a burial / cremation of a «Deceased Destitute Person» form P372, which is sent to the Director of Public Health Unit (PHU) of the relevant Health Service.