Would You Go Against Your Friends or Relatives Doctors Orders?

[fmdog44]

Lets say you are alone with your best friend or love of your life or a beloved relative lying close to death. That stricken person asks you to give them a drink of booze or a cigarette both strictly prohibited by their doctor. Would you give in to their request?

 

[Camper6]

Lets say you are alone with your best friend or love of your life or a beloved relative lying close to death. That stricken person asks you to give them a drink of booze or a cigarette both strictly prohibited by their doctor. Would you give in to their request?

Yes.Been there. I didn't but her sister did and I let her.

 

[Butterfly]

Well, it seems to me that if the person is truly close to death, i.e. irretrievably terminal, what difference does it make except that it might bring the person some degree of comfort?

If I were in my dying hours, I would certainly hope that someone would be kind enough to comply with my wishes, even if that wish were against doctor's orders and might even hasten my death. To me, it is kinda the same thing as saying I want adequate pain control even if it hastens my death.

 

[Keesha]

Absolutely!

 

[C'est Moi]

Yes, I would.

 

[MarciKS]

Yes.

 

[treeguy64]

Of course! How could I say, "This isn't good for you!"

 

[MarciKS]

Exactly. If it's the last thing they're ever gonna ask for then might as well. It's their life.

 

[win231]

Yes, I would.

 

[Wren]

Of course

 

[Em in Ohio]

Lets say you are alone with your best friend or love of your life or a beloved relative lying close to death. That stricken person asks you to give them a drink of booze or a cigarette both strictly prohibited by their doctor. Would you give in to their request?

Been there, done that with my brother and my dad. (Not cigarettes or booze, but what they craved). I gave them tastes of their favorite foods.) My dad loved nuts, but wasn't supposed to have them because of diverticula and my brother loved chocolate, prohibited because of sugar issues. When actively dying of other things, what difference could it make? It was the last gift that I could give them.

 

[Em in Ohio]

On my way out of life, someone please give me a euphoria drug! It's not like I'll have time to form an addiction!

 

[Camper6]

Cripes. I'm not sure if they still do it but they give a condemned person their choice of a last meal.

 

[Rosemarie]

Yes, it would be a 'last request'.

 

[Lewkat]

Sure would.

 

[Treacle]

It's a no brainer for me.

In the process of the individual being deprived life why add to that deprivation by refusing their wishes. Just a thought.

 

[Tommy]

The term "doctors orders" is a misnomer. "Doctor's recommendations" would be more accurate. Doctors have no authority to "order" anything.

 

[Ronni]

Of course. I've been in that situation with my mother, and my mother in law. There's no question I'd say yes. I would hope that my family would do the same for me.

 

[Sunny]

Of course, and I'd like to see them change that dumb rule that limits the amount of narcotic-type pain killers that a dying person may have. What are they afraid of, that they'll become addicted to morphine?

 

[StarSong]

I can't imagine anyone wouldn't.

 

[AnnieA]

Sure.

 

[fmdog44]

The term "doctors orders" is a misnomer. "Doctor's recommendations" would be more accurate. Doctors have no authority to "order" anything.

Wrong. They can hold you in quarantine if you have a communicable disease. They can also refuse to treat you in some cases.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

The term "doctors orders" is a misnomer. "Doctor's recommendations" would be more accurate. Doctors have no authority to "order" anything.

I believe most do not know that they, alone, have final say in their medical treatment. As AnnieA states, doctors make "recommendations", but the patient is the one, who consents to them. Since doctors have a more extensive medical knowledge base to make recommendations: in most cases, it pays to listen to them. But no one is legally bound to their recommendations. And you are in charge of your own body.

 

[AnnieA]

...They can also refuse to treat you in some cases.

In the US, they can drop you as a patient altogether.

 

[Keesha]

On my way out of life, someone please give me a euphoria drug! It's not like I'll have time to form an addiction!

I believe most do not know that they, alone, have final say in their medical treatment. As AnnieA states, doctors make "recommendations", but the patient is the one, who consents to them. Since doctors have a more extensive medical knowledge base to make recommendations: in most cases, it pays to listen to them. But no one is legally bound to their recommendations. And you are in charge of your own body.

This is what I discovered with my mom being in hospital . It’s not illegal to go against your doctors suggestions. If he thinks you need to stay in hospital and you and others think otherwise you can legally leave and make your own decisions or get another option. I didn’t know that until last year.