Thanks for all of the support and information.
Here's my update, I will post more later:
My father died last night at 8:20 and it was a brutal death. He truly suffered and he was NOT ready to go. The title here is how we feel:
A Family’s Perspective – “The Brutality of Sepsis will Haunt Us for the Rest of Our Lives”
https://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/br ... of-sepsis/ (I'm actually a clinical psychologist and I don't think this will ever go away for me, I will never be able to forget the suffering I witnessed)
We know he didn't have to die and there was a way to save them, but they refused to do it.
Dr. Thomas Levy says that people in our situation should sue (so that is what we are going to do):
https://www.faim.org/vitamin-c-and-seps ... the-bottle To be perfectly clear: There can never be an argument that Dr. Marik's protocol is supplanting or replacing any other indicated treatments. And even if there continues to be debate over how effective Dr. Marik's protocol might be for sepsis, along with the typical clamoring for "more studies" to quantify that effectiveness, there can be no reasonable debate that any patient should be denied the opportunity to be given an inexpensive and nontoxic therapy – especially when a high chance of death is looming in only a few days or even in a few hours.
When something is cheap and nontoxic, you don't have to wait years for "definitive" results. Medicine loves being sophisticated and well-defined, but sometimes just knowing that something won't hurt you while often working is all that is really needed.
Therefore, if you have a family member dying of sepsis on an intensive care unit, demand that Dr. Marik's protocol be immediately instituted. If you are denied this option, make sure your physician understands that immediate legal action to initiate the therapy will ensue, and that the death of your loved one will assure the initiation of a malpractice suit against him/her.
However, only sue the physician in charge, as physicians have a herd mentality and are scared to death of being the sole focus of a malpractice suit or medicolegal challenge.
And as if all of that wasn't enough, we were there with him last night and left at about 6:20. Nobody said you might want to stick around, it doesn't look good, it doesn't look like he has much time left. We went home and he died at 8:20 all by himself. They never called my mother to give her a heads up--if they did, we would have raced over. Many decades ago, when my grandfather was in the ICU from a fall, they called my grandmother and let her know that he only had a little time left. I truly don't know what has happened to the "health care" system in this country over the last decades, but these days, you risk your life going to the hospital.
I am not going to let this go. After what they did to him, I am going to make this a personal crusade for the rest of my life--nobody should ever suffer like that. He was a good man, he worked hard his whole life and he deserved a peaceful ending. These people are monsters!
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I'll post more later. For now, I'm going to read here:
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