Originally Posted by
inthebox
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Just want to clarify that DNR [ to the lay public ], does not mean no treatment. Just that if someone has a "cardiac arrest" someone who is DNR will not have CPR, "shocking," etc. They will be let go so to speak.
Or that if someone stops breathing or is on the maximum amount of supplemental oxygen, short of putting a tube in so a machine can ventilate you: a person with a DNR order will and should be given something to relieve that sense of breathlessness and allowed to die as comfortably as possible.
DNR does not mean a person will not get otherwise routine treatment. A DNR heart person will still get their heart medicine, a DNR person with chronic emphysema will get their oxygen and breathing treatments.
I do think that the each individual should be allowed to make that decision while they are not acutely ill, and in consultation with their doctor.
It is hard for that person, family and loved ones, and medical staff to start asking end of life questions when they are breathing hard, and or short of breath and or in pain, what they want their end of life to be? It is too emotional and they may not even be competent at the time to render that kind of decision. Many times the decision is "do everything, but so so would not want to be kept alive by machines."
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This type of counseling already occurs:
Why is it in this bill?
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Where in this bill does it state that the doctor or counselor gets paid, let alone payment dependent upon a certain code status. I don't read it, in what you have posted as such.
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