{"id":15412,"date":"2019-02-25T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15412"},"modified":"2019-02-25T02:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:59:14","slug":"nevada-poised-to-allow-hospitals-to-tell-you-to-fk-off-and-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/02\/25\/nevada-poised-to-allow-hospitals-to-tell-you-to-fk-off-and-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Poised To Allow Hospitals To Tell You To F**k Off And Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

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     The Nevada Soviet<\/span> Legislature is considering a bill, SB189, which would allow doctors and hospitals to refuse to treat patients who want to try to stay alive if said doctor or hospital “[h]as\u00a0 determined\u00a0 that\u00a0 the\u00a0 treatment\u00a0 of\u00a0 care\u00a0 would\u00a0 not\u00a0 be effective or is contrary to reasonable medical standards.”<\/p>\n

     Why is the inclusion of “reasonable medical standards” important?<\/p>\n

     Because it will allow doctors and hospitals to not only refuse treatment that doesn’t work, but to refuse treatment that does<\/em> work<\/a> by keeping a patient alive if it is that patients wish to not die due to lack of treatment<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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“This is a bioethics meme known as \u201cmedical futility,\u201d \u201cfutile care,\u201d \u201cinappropriate care,\u201d or \u201cnon-beneficial care\u201d \u2014 the bioethicists are still working on the best lexicon to get their policy goals enacted.<\/p>\n

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“Futile care says maintaining life when the patients wants to stay alive is not an appropriate intervention in some cases.<\/p>\n