The Patrick Madrid Show: May 14, 2024 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick explores the challenging decisions facing hospice care workers, particularly around administering pain management and its ethical implications. Patrick clarifies the Catholic Church's teaching on end-of-life care, distinguishing between permissible palliative care and morally unacceptable euthanasia. Patrick discusses real-life scenarios with medical professionals, offering guidance and resources to navigate these complex situations ethically.
- Patrick continues his conversation with Jose from the end of the previous hour. Jose is asking if it’s sinful to administer medicine even if it ultimately leads to death. (00:50)
- Donna - In all the years that I was in hospice care I never heard of anyone wanting to kill people (12:38)
- Aaron - I volunteered as an extraordinary minister. Should I be giving communion to a big group at a nursing home even if I don’t know if they are Catholic? (15:52)
- Patrick shares his experience working with the elderly (23:22)
- Kathleen - Is it okay to take notes during the homily? (30:15)
- Andrea - Hospice is meant to be helpful but my experience has been different and I was warned by a cardiologist about it. (31:38)
- Joe - Chicago hospitals have a ward who will give you drugs to sedate you and starve you to death if you want to die.
- Barbara - What should a Catholic do if there isn't a priest in the area to hear confessions? (42:38)
- Karen - I was a nurse and I watched two relatives get morphine and I was wondering if it was euthanasia. (46:45)
- Jessica - Doctors made a friend of mine terminal to get her into hospice for pain management. They removed her IV nutrition so she would qualify.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We do it in Mexico all the time |
| 0:05.7 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.6 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Pack of Madrid show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:19.5 | What are we doing Mexico all the time again? |
| 0:21.9 | Trying to remember. |
| 0:23.1 | I like tacos. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh, yeah, that's right. |
| 0:26.3 | The taco, yeah, it is Taco Tuesday, too. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome back, everybody, 888. |
| 0:31.6 | Cyrus, you're eating into the microphone. |
| 0:33.5 | You've got to back away a little bit because I can hear it. |
| 0:36.9 | I think everybody can hear it. |
| 0:38.2 | That's better. |
| 0:40.3 | It's not even lunchtime, Cyrus. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome back. |
| 0:45.9 | The number is 888-914-9149. |
| 0:49.1 | So we're going to go back to you, Jose and Pico Rivera. |
| 0:51.3 | Just to recap for those who are tuning in right now and didn't hear our |
| 0:54.2 | earlier discussion. Your daughter's a nurse in hospice care. And we were talking about paragraph, |
| 1:03.5 | what was it, 2277 in the catechism, which says whatever its motives and means, direct |
| 1:09.8 | euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives |
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