In an odd twist of fate, Dr Nitschke's work in Euthanasia has, through knee-jerk Government fears, and leger demain, created many quite good Palliative Care units here and there. You'll even find many Palliative Care doctors stating that Euthanasia is unnecessary because of good Palliative Care, but this is untrue at best and somewhat insane at worst. They are paid to say that or they have some peculiar religious shamanistic cult mysticism about themselves. Their career depends upon them saying rubbish like that.
Let us be clear: The one thing, Euthanasia, is not the other, Palliative Care. Both are good things...one, Palliative Care, is under-funded and is having a proportion of its funds mis-appropriated and wasted in the curative arena, and the other, Euthanasia, is illegal.
No comments:
Post a Comment