You still treat a DNR patient. You just withhold life-saving interventions, and there's nothing threatening to end her life because all her (physiological) illness is fake.
There's a growing movement which calls for replacing Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) with Allow Natural Death (AND), suggesting that it emphasizes the fact that death is a natural process and is clearer for terminally ill patients and their families. I actually like it very much. This paper is a bit wonky in terms of writing but I thought it was interesting.
I can't remember if it was you or someone else, but whoever it is that had the Radiohead album art spoof of her makes me guffaw every time.
I believe it was @lolnah that created that work of genius. I doff my hat to the master.
She's totally the type of malingerer who would be caught if, during one of her episodes, an enterprising doctor announced to another, "Wow, this is such a great example for teaching. I'm just surprised we haven't seen [insert random action here] yet, as you usually do with such severe cases." Like, "Usually, you'd expect to see the patient touch her nose and seal clap right now in a textbook case like this. They often come to demanding a McDonald's Happy Meal, as well." Then start a stopwatch and see how many fractions of a second it would take for her to comply.
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Jesus, it makes me feel unbelievably terrible to say this, but: yeah fucking right. This didn't happen.Just farting around on reddit and hit "All" just for the lulz. Saw this post on twoX and thought of Chelsea immediately.
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Last night I was the victim of abuse by a paramedic in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. I have frequent non-epileptic seizures as part of PTSD, which in consequence brings a lot of contact with emergency services, not voluntarily from my side, always called by passerby. This time was not different.
There are always two paramedics per vehicle. On the go it leaves just one paramedic with the patient.
This dirty fucker thought I was unconscious, even though I was lucid and aware of my surroundings, just not in control over my body. He grabbed the opportunity to take off my shirt and touched and felt up my breast for the whole ride. Just when we stopped he hastily put my top back in place.
I am still in schock and unable to really process what happened. How can somebody so shamelessly take advantage of a situation like that, someone who has the responsibility to keep people safe? I am feeling so much anger and violation at the same time.
I'll go to a consulting service for sexual assault against women to press charges in an hopefully effective way. I feel responsible for all that are put into his hands and it got to my knowledge that it was his first shift that night. Anxious to have to go through all this , but I know I am stronger than that, I'll come out of it.
My heart goes out to each and everyone of us that has to deal with this kinda hardship.
EDIT: I thank from my heart each and everyone of you who voiced support and well wishes. It truly means a lot in such a difficult and demanding time.
And to those who need to express disbelief and harassment, I feel sorry for you and it couldn't effect me less. I and this man know undoubtedly what happened and those who are clear and right in their heart will be receptive to hearing my story.
I will make an update when things move forward. I will not give up, that I assure you!
r/TwoXChromosomes - I am enraged. I was sexually assaulted by a paramedic. Yes that's right. (TW)
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Idk, scrolling her post history there are more posts/replies about food/art/shrooms than her health, and most of the health comments are supporting someone else. And I’m not seeing any fishing for sympathy, just asking advice. She just doesn’t look like the munchie cry wolf type.
I do have intimate knowledge of the DNR system in the US (at least in my state, but I think the standard is pretty uniform nationwide). We have two types: DNR-CC and DNR-CCA. The DNR-CC means that no lifesaving measures will be taken, and that means no intubation (or any other airway adjuncts), no CPR, and no use of an AED (or any other Edison Medicine via a cardiac monitor), but other measures like medications, IV fluids, and even using an Ambu bag to assist ventilations if the patient is still breathing on their own is allowed. In the case of a DNR-CCA, ALL measures including intubation (unless they have a separate DNI Do Not Intubate order) are taken up to the point of respiratory/cardiac arrest, so those patients can be intubated, and even shocked for like cardiac pacing or a shock to resynchronize the heart when the patient is in SVT is allowed. Having a DNR order in place does not necessarily mean the patient is in some kind of palliative care or hospice; in fact, any person of sound mind can go to their doctor and get a DNR even if they don't have some disease or other process actively killing them. In the US, like @Flourishing Pinecone ❧ said, DNR does NOT mean Do Not Treat. Take, for example, an elderly patient who is not in hospice but does have a DNR; if this patient is suffering from severe dehydration, you can administer IV fluid, if they're suffering from difficulty breathing you can administer medications both IV and through an O2 mask. The goal is to treat minor things, even though you're allowing whatever is actually killing the patient to continue its natural course, in an effort to make their passing much more comfortable.
I'm actually inclined to believe this if only for the fact that this person, unlike our munchie pals, seems to have good insight into the fact their psychogenic seizures aren't true seizures (and they wouldn't call for an ambulance themselves).
Of course she needs to be a vocal ally. She identifies as Dying.
She is absolutely going the same way as Hope, the other major drug seeking munchie. She will continue to escalate in terms of what's currently killing her, she might even get so desperate she claims she has cancer. Eventually she will either burn all of her bridges by alienating all of her loved ones, maybe scam her followers, or she will somehow convince one of them to stay in their toxic codependency while they enable her to the point she accidentally overdoses or causes her organs to fail. Considering her history, the latter seems much more likely.
