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“Dr Stuttaford’s Surgery” |
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Dr Tom Stuttaford in The Oldie (October 2005) wrote that a reader from Scotland “asks why death from dehydration was described as a terrible death in a TV documentary about those who died when Albert Speer was in charge of the workers who manufactured V2 rockets in Nordhausen, whereas it is now presented as a merciful release for our own elderly relatives.
“If food and water are withdrawn from an elderly, possible terminally ill patient, and other drugs are not given to hide their apparent distress, quite apart from their sore, parched lips, tongue and mouth, their end is a very unpleasant sight…”
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