Melanie Phillips ...

... makes me spit blood.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1160511/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Doctors-struck-denying-patients-right-die-What-sinister-distortion-medical-ethics.html



Dear God. Is she taking the piss? It's like she is desperate for something to say against doctors, but the best she can come up with is the fact that doctors have been told to comply with their patients wishes when it comes to withdrawing treatment? There are so many problems with the NHS and healthcare and doctors that she could talk about and bring people's attention to. But oh no, she goes for doctors listening to patients wishes about the end of their lives and complying with them. What she says does not even make sense. She says



"It has always been an important medical principle that no patient should be forced to have treatment against their will. Patients have always had the right to refuse treatment, whatever the consequences to their own lives."



And then in the same breath to say "the terrible truth is that doctors will now be struck off and may be sent to prison for refusing to kill their patients. How on earth did this country arrive at such a monstrous situation? And how can the medical profession go along with such a betrayal of its deepest ethical principles?"

I'm only a baby in the medicine world. But already I know that sometimes letting a patient die peacefully, especially when the patient in sound mind has said that that is what they would have wanted, is sometimes the ethical, humane, human thing to do.