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I wonder if some of it is tied in with care plans, I had a call to book me in to speak to a GP over the phone to discuss a care plan, available should I end up in hospital, so they have certain information available - why medical notes can't be shared and available to all in this day and age anyway I don't know though!

She thankfully skipped over the section covering DNR, which I was glad about, being only 36!

I assume they are doing it for people with certain medical conditions but to cold call people generally seems to be very, well, cold.
older people get sicker, though, as their bodies slowly switch off. If there isn't an age lmit that triggers the enquiry, I suspect people just won't bother (doctors or patients).

I don't like the idea of cold-calling; ideally this is something that should be raised in a regular patient-doctor consultation.
// Yet I know people of 25 who look like they are going to expire so I hate this idea that age is in some way relevant to anything. //

It is though. If they're older it means they've lived longer and they're less likely to respond to treatment.
This is an issue which is far too complicated to ask for a simple Yes/No option.
That is a decision to be made dependent on how ill and what quality of life a person has.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/28/01/article-3058366-2812F61D00000578-458_308x298.jpg

If Miliband's lot get elected we'd like to sign the "Do Not Resuscitate" forms'


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