"Once a person enters hospice care, no further attempt to cure their disease is made, but all attempts at treating secondary conditions (my emphasis added — GB) and providing comfort are fair game..." As one whose beloved spouse of over forty years just died in hospice from "complications" of a nasty cancer, I will tell you in no uncertain terms that "treating secondary conditions" is most emphatically NOT "fair game" in some hospice practices, I will never forget what my wife had to go through because of that.
"If you sit down at a poker game and can't find the sucker, get up. You're the sucker."
"Once a person enters hospice care, no further attempt to cure their disease is made, but all attempts at treating secondary conditions (my emphasis added — GB) and providing comfort are fair game..." As one whose beloved spouse of over forty years just died in hospice from "complications" of a nasty cancer, I will tell you in no uncertain terms that "treating secondary conditions" is most emphatically NOT "fair game" in some hospice practices, I will never forget what my wife had to go through because of that.
"If you sit down at a poker game and can't find the sucker, get up. You're the sucker."