{"id":33170,"date":"2012-06-21T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/daily_mail_top_doctors_chilling_claim_the_nhs_kills_off_130000_elderly_pati\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:00:37","slug":"daily_mail_top_doctors_chilling_claim_the_nhs_kills_off_130000_elderly_pati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33170","title":{"rendered":"(Daily Mail) Top doctor&#39;s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial \u201d\u02dcdeath pathway\u2019 into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2161869\/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday. Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33170\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,104,114,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}