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Ralph Raico

The hysterical right-wing canard about "death panels" under socialized medicine--oh, wait!

This story from the Times reveals the not so tender mercies of British death panels:

AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened. Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding.....

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 2:08 PM 

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