"Yet the crackdown had an unintended consequence, one little examined today: it has increased the suffering of patients who experience chronic pain, as medications that were once heavily promoted have since been restricted." —Ann Neumann for The Baffler
Hi! I'm (probably) Ember (trying it out). I also go by Zemri.
#Agender. They/them and neutral terms only unless otherwise indicated. #masc leaning in physical presentation. Been on T for almost 5 months now. Mostly just goblin mode at all times.
Most of his treatment will be the same for an NHS patient.
But not all. He’ll get timely treatment and he’ll be given the expensive options. If he needs palliative care and pain relief this will be 24/7. Most of us won’t get that unless a charity can provide it.
Now is the time to boost the #palliativeCare of UK charities like Macmillan Cancer Support and of local hospices -who are struggling for funding.
“I’m actually shocked,” said Jyothi Jayaraman, who quit her job at a Vancouver hospice, May’s Place, because it stopped providing MAID once it was taken over by #ProvidenceHealth.
It's not that #conservatives aren't sometimes right - it's that even when they're right, they're highly selective about it. Take the hoary chestnut that "#IncentivesMatter," trotted out to deny humane benefits to poor people on the grounds that "free money" makes people "workshy."
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Sometimes, these sham hospices deliberately induce overdoses in their patients in a bid to make it look like they're actually in the business of caring for the dying. Incentives matter: