Two reports from Hedley Rees on the successes and failures of the FDA, another harrowing series of clips in ‘Care Home Killing Fields’ and more from Maryanne Demasi on the intransigence of the CDC
Midazolam
Behind Closed Doors
The shocking evidence heard in the Scottish Covid Inquiry about how people in care homes were denied dignity, love and ultimately life through withdrawal of healthcare during covid has now been echoed in England. Together held a panel discussion including the voices of whistleblowers who have not been heard and addressing fears that the inquiry will not join the dots on the evidence and that damaging new law will embed these practices if any kind of emergency is announced in future…
Killing not Care
Module 6 of the UK C-19 Inquiry has just completed taking evidence, and much of it has been very harrowing. The overwhelming impression is of numerous unnecessary deaths, not from covid-19 but from loneliness, neglect, dehydration, denial of access to basic medical care, and most seriously the blanket application of DNAR notices across care homes for the elderly and even for young adult with disabilities, often without the patient’s consent or the family’s knowledge. Read this and tell me that the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill will be remotely equipped to prevent abuse and coercion.
Let’s not forget the mass casualties of the covid RESPONSE – Part III
In this, the third (and final) article of this series highlighting the mass casualties of the response to a purported ‘deadly virus’, Dr Gary Sidley prompts us all to remember the victims of the ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders and the overuse of the powerful sedative drug Midazolam.
Balancing on an ethical knife edge
It is important that we admit what we do not know and there are many gaps to the end of life Midazolam story. In fact it is possible to interpret what we do know in two totally different ways. 1. The relatives have been deceived or 2. The relatives are right.
