Hospice Care Drains the Dying | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/casket to get your new wireless plan for just $15 a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for free. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Half of Americans, year on year, die in hospice care. When done right, this can be a way for patients to spend time with their loved ones and say goodbye on their own terms. When done wrong, this has become little more than end of life abuse. Whether you believe it’s a for-profit hustle or not, there’s no doubt that hospice as a system is broken. Is it too late to fix it? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/5k612 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.0	The Economist is Independent Journalism for Independent Thinking.
0:25.6	Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. You're scared? That is so normal. Let's pretend for a second. This is not a death visit.
0:39.2	So we're going to see Mr. Taylor. He was a math teacher his whole life, he likes fishing with his grandson, and he
0:44.7	watches Jeopardy every single night, and he's very good at it.
0:48.8	Kospis is a terrifying word for many.
0:51.4	It means that you're on your deathbed. But Nurse Hadley helps her
0:54.7	viewers see it as something that's not so scary, but more as a way to say goodbye to
0:58.9	loved ones, to be tended to with dignity and let go of the fear of dying.
1:04.0	However, while she's known for kindness and compassion
1:06.8	to patients, this isn't the case for many hospice
1:09.7	facilities.
1:10.9	Lawsuits surrounding poor treatment in hospice are relatively common,
1:14.2	resulting in loved ones dying in terrible pain and deplorable conditions.
1:18.4	To my sister and myself about this, this is how we remember our mother. We can't get this out of our head.
1:27.0	The peaceful death surrounded by family that she should have had was gone, and the final hours of her life were filled with complete suffering.
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