Tuesday, January 20, 2009

If You Don't Respect Life, How Are You Able To Save It?

God created life so that it would be cherished, respected and treated with divine care.

Would you feel comfortable going to a Physician who purposely withheld VITAL resources regarding your LIFE?

If you work in the Medical Field and have a patient lying in bed, shivering from cold temperatures, would you put a blanket over them?

If you saw a small child playing alone in the middle of the street, would you move them to the sidewalk before danger approached?

If you happened across a blind man dying of thirst, would you lead him to the nearby drinking fountain?

Do you send your child out to play in the snow with bare feet?

Do you put your Grandparent ailing from Alzheimer's in charge of keeping track of all of your family's weekly activities?

Stupid Questions...Common Sense

Would a Cancer Doctor at the very least, share a folder of Hospice and Palliative Care Resources (of which, btw...are not the same thing) with her Patient during their "Medically, you've run out of options, basically you'll be dead soon" Meeting?

Stupid Question...Common Sense

Right??!!

Astoundingly, it's not...as I am sadly discovering it is not COMMON SENSE for many Cancer Doctors...how could this be??!!!

The very ones whom others trust with their VERY LIVES...not respecting it??!!!

The reality of this is terrifying for us all, because one thing we ALL will have in common is dying...


Do you Respect Life?  And if so, how could you not?

My Dad's Cancer Doctor never shared Palliative Care Resources with him at anytime...the only way we found out about it was through a lucky search on the Internet...so regarding this issue, in a sad, albeit strange way...Google was able to Respect my Father, while his Oncologist was not...

I love my Dad (Arend 'Odee' Lenderink)...and I am not okay with this having happened to him nor to anyone...

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