UPDATE on my Mom.

[Maru Kitteh]

46. It's hideously unfair to say the "medical profession" will do whatever

we will get paid for. We're human beings you know. Many of us watched our own fathers and mothers die in the very same settings we have to work in every day.

We do OUR BEST to provide the care people have hopefully requested prior to finding themselves in need of extraordinary measures with a living will/polst. It's the ETHICAL thing to do you know, what the patient wants. Quite frequently there is no such document and it's left to families and significants other. When they cannot agree and no wishes are known we generally have to assume that the person wants every chance we can give them because again, IT'S THE ETHICAL THING TO DO.

Your characterization of us is unkind and unwarranted. THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT WORK and mean, dehumanizing attitudes such as yours make it so much harder.