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Loughlatoday at 1:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

The amount of morphine available to the patients on hospice that I have known has made it very clear what the actual intent of those scripts is.

Granted, my sample size of 6 isn't great, and 3 were in terrible pain so it made sense for them, but they had ALL the opiates. . . One had liquid injectable morphine in case he couldn't swallow. He had no issues with swallowing and wasn't in pain.

I wanted to ask the doctor if the intent was to allow a calm end, but chickened out.


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gopher_spacetoday at 1:43 AM

Amazing how frequently people die after they’re turned over right when the family is all together.

Amazing and appreciated.

DANmodetoday at 1:37 AM

Open secret.

Cowardice of the system, society, that doesn’t allow practitioners to discuss this.

Leads to scary grey areas, actually.

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