NICE urges doctors to treat dying patients as individuals

[annie]

They shouldn't need urging! What do you think?

End-of-life care in England must be tailored to the needs of dying patients rather than a "tick-box approach", the health watchdog NICE says.

Patients must be treated with respect and compassion, it said, and doctors should avoid making "snap decisions" about whether someone was dying.

The guidance is designed to address misuse of the previous system, the Liverpool Care Pathway.

Charities welcomed the new guidelines - but warned more investment was needed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35094342

[maureenho]

And so they should treat patients as individuals, after all WE are all individuals.

[wendy]

this is what is missing today.

[chenrezig]

They should have been doing this from the day they took the Hippocratic Oath

[coffee]

Just because a patient is dying that does not mean that they should not be treated with respect and compassion. in fact they should be shown more dignity as chez said They should have been doing this from the day they took oath coffeex