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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
Which supposes that there are, more commonly, instances where doctors do not speak to relatives of the terminally ill and routinely mark the the notes DNR anyway.
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Well, I obviously cannot speak for what happens now, but it was not allowed when I was in charge of the ward. Notes marked withDNR
had(it was policy) to have the consent of the consultant, who would first meet with relatives before marking the notes thus.
As I said in my previous post the problems arose when such patients who were terminally ill - end stage terminal, arrested and there was no order not to resuscititate...this meant resuscititation
had to be attempted.