Professor says doctors use ‘death pathway’ to euthenasia of the elderly.
Treatment on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.
Around 29 per cent of patients that die in hospital are on controversial ‘care pathway.’
Pensioner admitted to hospital given treatment by doctor on weekend shift.
NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.
Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.
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