What Moron Came Up With This?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3056621/Over-75-Sign-ready-death-GPs-ask-older-patients-ll-agree-not-resuscitate-order.html

[Eve]

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.

[jno]

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.

[ludwig]

// 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.

[lindapalmara]

This is an issue which is far too complicated to ask for a simple Yes/No option.

[dannyk13]

That is a decision to be made dependent on how ill and what quality of life a person has.

[anotheoldgit]

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'