No. of Recommendations: 9
The "morphine to comfort" I could get behind, but I foresee the person administering it being brought up on charges. Not sure how you could get around that.
I spent a decade as a hospice medical director (layered on top of to my regular 30-year job as an oncologist).
The rule was always, What's in the patient's best interest?
My only sworn duty was to the patient....and they needed as much morphine as they needed.
The men with briefcases never bothered me, and if they had, it would have been see-you-in-court time.
--sutton
the bigger challenge was patients or their caregivers with preexisting drug abuse issues. There, the answer was very "one week at a time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers, remember that drug abusers with cancer get cancer pain, too, and document the bejeezus out of everything"
