Patients in hospital are today routinely asked if they will accept to having a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ note printed on their medical records or stuck on the chart at the end of their bed.
The idea of not resuscitating seriously ill patients goes back to Hippocrates (who used to be considered the father of medicine) who originated the phrase: ‘Thou shalt no strive officiously to keep alive’.
And when that principle was introduced into modern medicine it was intended as a form of compassion. The thought behind it was that very elderly patients who were terminally ill, and…
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Source: Dr Vernon Coleman - MB ChB DSc Read the original article here: https://vernoncoleman.org/