This Is An Area Where The myHR Might Help But Only With A Lot Of Work.

This appeared last week and got me thinking: 'Anything to save them': Medics reveal human cost of our denialEmma Young Published: February 15 2018 - 11:48AM One day in an Australian hospital ward, two men were dying. Both lay in rooms off the same corridor. But their stories unfolded very differently. The first was 95 years old. He had end-stage diabetes and heart disease. He had collapsed during a heart attack and was taken to hospital unconscious. There was no advanced care directive to indicate how he felt about treatments. His daughter arrived, shocked and distraught, and insisted on all possible treatment. Doctors did CPR for 45 minutes, "jumping on his chest," breaking his ribs and sternum – as was standard for resuscitation, said Merran Cooper, the junior doctor who was on the wards that day. "We could not bring him back to life," she said. "After a certain number of times the head physician had to call it – there was no oxygen left in his brain. By that time there were... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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