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HiPointDem

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Fri Mar 8, 2013, 02:05 AM

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87-year-old woman who supposedly didn't want CPR got CPR regardless [View all] HiPointDem Mar 2013 OP

I think this is emblematic of "corporatist ethics"-- i.e., no ethics at all. hlthe2b Mar 2013 #1

i agree. but apparently it's the wave of the future, as a number of supposed 'democrats' think HiPointDem Mar 2013 #2

Dozens of democrats, trilling about how the woman 'got the peaceful natural death she wanted' HiPointDem Mar 2013 #4

k and r--and you are correct, that vision of dying in corporate arms is creepy. and, didn't a niyad Mar 2013 #3

it seems we're in the minority. i'd like to pee on a few people too. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #5

It is horrible that they are allowed to do this. WCLinolVir Mar 2013 #6

i am mocking people on other threads who keep insisting seniors shouldn't be given cpr because HiPointDem Mar 2013 #7

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"but won't say whether or not she was a nurse," dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #9

They *do* have nurses at this facility, lots of them. If this woman wasn't a nurse, why HiPointDem Mar 2013 #10

Please link me to a story which says definitively 'she was not a nurse' which includes the source HiPointDem Mar 2013 #11

ABC news, here: halfway down the page dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #12

The staff member was "serving in the capacity of a resident services director, not as a nurse," HiPointDem Mar 2013 #13

How much of a profit do they make on that $2500 monthly fee with no medical services? LiberalFighter Mar 2013 #14

They aren't doing a very good job as a business madville Mar 2013 #18

k&r Starry Messenger Mar 2013 #15

kick HiPointDem Mar 2013 #16

My grandmother lived in one of these for a few years before she moved in with my aunt dsc Mar 2013 #17

as you say, independent living = healthy elderly. so that would preclude dementia i'd think. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #19

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