Sentences with phrase «many dying patients»

«The charities or their telemarketers allegedly falsely told donors that their contributions would be used to provide pain medication to children suffering from cancer, to transport patients to chemotherapy appointments, and to pay for hospice care for dying patients.

Consider the GOP staffer who insulted President Obama's daughters, the paramedic who took disgraceful pictures of dying patients, the assisted - living employee who posted a photo of a client on the toilet.

This might provide some insight as to why news editors are killing stories about curing cancer with cannabis, and why the government is still handing out lifetime jail sentences to dispensary owners for selling the possible cure to cancer to sick and dying patients.

What I saw was a gradual withdrawal from the world, a growing quietness, a lessened tolerance of small talk, and in some dying patients a great anger.

I actually agree with what you have to say about the discussion of the topic of family, love and forgiveness with your dying patients.

How sad to claim to be a chaplain and not be able to tell a dying patient anything about the specifics on the other side of the veil; what will happen to a person who has died, what they will be doing, what is the exact nature of God and those who depart from this life.

I suppose talking to the dying about their families is all well and good if the dying are all confirmed Christians, but I believe it was C.S. Lewis who articulately bemoaned the friends and doctors who tell a dying patient the classic «everything is going to be all right» when from a Biblical viewpoint, everything will not be all right.

Why are chaplains allowed to waste the remaining valuable time of these dying patients who want to spend with their families?

How ironic that a divinity professor is so lacking in compassion and human insight both for you and for the dying patients!

As far as magic — I think many things we experience today would have been considered magic by those of the past — flying through the air in an airplane, transplanting organs from dying patients to living ones, sending pictures through the air, even just being able to capture and use electircity, etc., etc..

My pastor talked about a dying patient the other day whom had give her the Lord's Supper.

However, refusing appropriate pain medication to a dying patient, when you could so easily provide it, and then telling them that their pain is a kiss from Jeebus is hateful and immoral.

his decision to convert had nothing to do with what he found, but what he experienced as a doctor of dying patients and his investigation of different beliefs.

To that «cynical end» she had «set out to terrify dying patients and their relatives».

The LCP is intended, so they say, to ease the last hours of dying patients to save them the suffering caused by invasive treatment.

It is important to understand, it seems to me, that the LCP should be considered unacceptable under all circumstances, not simply for Catholics but universally, since it is based on an ideological notion about the end of life, a pressing of all supposedly dying patients into a predetermined pattern of treatment involving the withdrawal of food and hydration (itself an unacceptable procedure under all circumstances) and not on an evidence - based assessment of the needs of individual patients.

The UDDA has, in construct and in code, respected both dying patient and potential organ recipient.

To be a therapist to a dying patient makes us aware of the uniqueness of each individual in this vast sea of humanity....

Just like Mother Teresa refused to give morphine to dying patients and then told them that their suffering was a «kiss from Jesus» and the RCC's conspiracy to hide pedophiles was a «judgement call» (and those are your own words).

With aggressive treatment it may on occasion be possible to sustain their life somewhat longer, but, because they are essentially dying patients, it seems better simply to give them what care and comfort we can while permitting them to die without the bodily intrusiveness of aggressive measures.

Haveyou ever sat by the bedside of a dying patient — a father or mother, perhaps, or someone else you loved — and given the patient a little chipped ice?

The defeat of these «euthanasia» initiatives shifted the focus to «assisted suicide,» which gives more control to the dying patient.

Refused to give dying patients appropriate pain medication, consorted with known felons and dictators to get huge donations, never built a state of the art hospital despite raking in millions in unaccounted for funds, which went into the Vatican's general expense account despite being designated specifically for charitable purposes?

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

The LA Times has an interesting story about whether doctors should tell imminently dying patients that they are about to expire.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

With many dying patients, especially those who can not affirm a life after death, he will expect to share what he considers to be their justifiable anger and pain.

«Working with dying patients over many years has made me much more religious than I have ever been.»

And Kübler - Ross's theories did lay the foundation for the hospice movement, greatly ease the mental and physical suffering of dying patients and inspire those who care for them.

He also explores the emergence of «palliative care,» highlighting the new attention given to pain management and a more wholistic focus on dying patients» physical, emotional and spiritual well - being.

I have heard many dying patients remark that the most awful thing about dying is that it must be done alone.

His optimism about stem cells and heart disease is unquenchable, and he talks up another project — to use stem cells to wean dying patients off heart machines.

So annealed into pop culture are the five stages of grief — introduced in the 1960s by Swiss - born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler - Ross based on her studies of the emotional state of dying patients — that they are regularly referenced without explication.

Only 17 percent objected to terminal sedation (sedating dying patients to the point of unconsciousness), but 42 percent objected to prescription of birth control to teenagers without parental consent, and 52 percent objected to abortion for failed contraception.

Unfortunately, families of dying patients are often critical of and report dissatisfaction with what they view as highly medicalized deaths.

They predicted that their dying patients would live 5.3 times longer than they actually did.

He was puzzled by the fact that cod liver oil alone and butter oil alone seldom revived the dying patient — but the two together worked like magic.12 Research into prostaglandins may supply the answer.

Doctors and nurses ordered to stop denying dying patients water New NHS guidance instructs hospital staff not to deny water to the dying, in a «The Prime Minister found # 1bn to keep her job — why can't she find the same amount for the doctors and nurses in their jobs?»

«We tie them to beds»: Russian doctors and nurses pose next to dying patients for sick social media selfies.

The documentary follows a group of students enrolled in an elective class on hospice care that will teach them skills for taking care of dying patients and allow them to employ these skills as volunteers at a hospice care center.

Many of Saturday's films examine themes of family but there's also time to explore the relationship between a volunteer and his dying patient in The Final Nights and an account of child trafficking in Miles To Go Before I Sleep.

Ruth is a nurse and has to suck it up when dying patients spout racist last words.

Dr. Kim Ki - eum could do nothing to help her dying patients.

Giving a caregiver a break just to maybe take a walk or do something normal like go to the grocery and to spend time with the dying patient was a profound experience.

Written by Rick Eid based on a screenplay by the late Crichton, Genes, from WBTV and CrichtonSun LLC, is described as a high - concept medical soap about a brilliant doctor who saves his dying patient's life using a miraculous gene therapy — infused with his own DNA — only to realize the side effects have turned her into a dangerous sociopath.

A somewhat little known and underappreciated first - person walking simulator, Ether One is a video game which places you in the mind of a dying patient as an «explorer» travelling through their memories whilst searching for the source of the problem.

As New York City grapples with tracing the contacts of Craig Spencer, a young physician infected with the Ebola virus, It's worth drawing attention to two worthy efforts to tamp down unreasoned fears — President Obama's White House embrace of Nina Pham, the Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while treating a dying patient, and David Ropeik's fine piece on the perils posed by Ebola fears, published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

(10) Successfully defending before the NMC a senior nurse accused of neglecting a dying patient in a care home when the BUPA nurse / patient ratio was at danger level.

(secured acquittal at a Nursing & Midwifery Council re-trial, of a senior nurse accused of neglect of a dying patient, after a 3 - year battle to clear her name).

This sample resume describes how a hospice nurse provided compassionate care to dying patients.