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14 Jan 2013
Life / Advocating euthanasia routinely causes scandals in Poland... [63]
The LCP has continued to be controversial. It has been claimed that elderly patients were admitted to hospital for emergency treatment and put on the LCP without documented proof that the patient wanted it, or could not recover from their health problem; 48 year old Norfolk man Andrew Flanagan was revived by his family and went home for a further five weeks after doctors put him on the LCP.[24] The Royal College of Physicians found that up to half of families were not informed of clinicians’ decision to put a relative on the pathway.[25]
That`s sounds like euthanasia, even if not formally legal.
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The LCP has continued to be controversial. It has been claimed that elderly patients were admitted to hospital for emergency treatment and put on the LCP without documented proof that the patient wanted it, or could not recover from their health problem; 48 year old Norfolk man Andrew Flanagan was revived by his family and went home for a further five weeks after doctors put him on the LCP.[24] The Royal College of Physicians found that up to half of families were not informed of clinicians’ decision to put a relative on the pathway.[25]
That`s sounds like euthanasia, even if not formally legal.