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1. People in hospice get oxygen. Although using fans and opioids can help comfort more

Sat Sep 18, 2021, 11:19 AM

Sep 2021

or as well as oxygen. Oxygen might extend someone's life a little bit on it's own.

Yeah, I'm a hospice nurse.

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Alcoholics are put at the bottom of the list for liver transplants [View all] cinematicdiversions Sep 2021 OP

Receiving Oxygen Is Very Different from Getting a Liver Transplant MineralMan Sep 2021 #2

When do we start rationing care for obesity? Sympthsical Sep 2021 #3

Not a scientific study, Mr.Bill Sep 2021 #10

When obese people kcr Sep 2021 #13

They are Sympthsical Sep 2021 #14

When the obese are pushing ER capacity to 230%, causing innocent kids Maru Kitteh Sep 2021 #19

When my 96 year old father was taken to the ER with COVID MineralMan Sep 2021 #24

Remarkable day. She may have in some sense gone well before, Hortensis Sep 2021 #25

Yes. MineralMan Sep 2021 #26

Bottom of the list for any in hospital treatment. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2021 #5

You can't get on the transplant list if you're drinking Arazi Sep 2021 #6

Standard of care KentuckyWoman Sep 2021 #7

In the end, LW&Ts, DNRs, Advanced Directives are the patient's choice Backseat Driver Sep 2021 #12

Great point. marble falls Sep 2021 #8

The willfully unvaccinated simply don't care citizen blues Sep 2021 #11

This is a 90% truly ugly thread Hekate Sep 2021 #15

It certainly is and it's disgusting. 👎 nt Raine Sep 2021 #17

It's a 100% ugly situation our county's stuck in right now. Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #23

No, they are not. Ms. Toad Sep 2021 #18

This is not true ismnotwasm Sep 2021 #20

Here is the problem with your proposal BoycottTimHortons Sep 2021 #21

Why aren't they at the bottom of the list for lung transplants? Crunchy Frog Sep 2021 #22