Quacks: Two Years in a Veterans Administration Nursing Home

What is the easiest and most economical way to dispose of elderly disabled veterans who, in the eyes of many Veterans Affairs' doctors and administrators, have outlived their usefulness to society? The VA's answer is to warehouse them in an institution and deny them proper medical care. Prescribing them mind-numbing drugs greatly facilitates the process by rendering them easier to control and less likely to complain. Unlicensed physicians and incompetent nurses abound. Besides, negligence and elderly abuse lead to a high death rate, a necessity because there simply are not enough facilities and beds available to meet the steadily increasing demand. Death panels decide who will live and who shall die. Read Quacks to find out why more death certificates get doctored than patients at VA nursing homes. Write your Congress person and ask her to eliminate the nursing home death panels.

Signing a medical advance directive is tantamount to signing your own death warrant. The phrase "heroic measures" is open to interpretation. Unscrupulous medical administrators can use it as an excuse to deny you much needed surgery, dialysis, and other costly medical procedures.

There was a time when families felt it was their responsibility to take care of elderly relatives. To our everlasting shame, that time is long gone. Still, we have the ability to choose assisted living facilities where the elderly have the ability to remain an active part of the community rather than isolated institutional nursing homes that steal social security checks, force their residents to take unnecessary tranquilizers so as to make them easier to manage, and attempt to hide the abuse that takes place behind the scene.

Author: Fred Dungan

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Jun 10, 2021

Number of Pages: 166 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798518548893