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.
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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.
