Futile Care

Futile Care protocols are very popular in medicine today. In fact many hospitals have developed and implemented Futile Care protocols. What is Futile Care? It's the right of doctors to refuse wanted life support treatments, based on their personal values, rather than their professional knowledge, as to the quality of the patient's life.

What's the agenda? It's health care rationing and imposing a duty to die, sooner rather than later. Will Futile Care protocols be in the Obama Healthcare plan? I think so. Will ethics committees in hospitals continue to promote Futile Care protocols?

I think the answer is yes. Why? Because of cost containment.  No matter what the president says, regarding the expense of his Universal Coverage, there will not be enough money to fund it. Implementation of Futile Care protocols will reduce the cost by eliminating the patient. With the patient gone, the money can be used for other worthy diseases. 

Sounds far fetched? I don't think so. Once abortion entered the medical profession, a respect for life was lost. Medical schools today are not required to take the Hippocratic Oath.

With the implementation of advanced directives, powers of attorney seem to be running medicine, rather than physicians. Does Futile Care occur? You bet. But, mostly, it's at the insistence of families. This comes from many societal reasons. First and foremost, may be selfishness, as the family unit disintegrates, so will the practice of medicine.   

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