Medical Industry's Death Panels: Greek Tragedy of a Lady Named Glenda

Detailed description of deadly pitfalls as two seniors, lovers, pilots, develop cancer, and the awesome misconduct that brings about the premature death of Glenda. Everyone will at various times in their lives go to the hospital for themselves or to take a loved one. The simplest need for a treatable medical condition can quickly turn deadly as the author learned when he brought Glenda to the hospital for a simple treatable shortness-of-breath medical condition. The medical industry is a business. In it are people, including doctors, which are as corrupt as in any other business. Understand certain basics: In Medical Industry’s Death Panels, the author details the sequence of doctors’ arrogance and misconduct after he brought Glenda to the hospital for a treatable shortness of breath condition; the transfer to a skilled nursing facility that lacked the type of treatment ordered by hospital physicians; the round-the-clock dosing with morphine-related drugs that worsened the condition; the withholding of treatment for a pressure wound; and the sham Certification of Terminal Illness forms to get a mistreated lady into a hospice facility. A smiling and active Glenda died from a morphine overdose within hours of arrival at the hospice facility. The author is a former federal and then private investigator who has written numerous not-for-profit books since 1978 proving the people with insider knowledge on misconduct causing or enabling some of the nation’s worst tragedies.