Hi. My sister (a well-meaning, sweet drone) sent me this email and although I don't get a chance to post often, I thought that this was just too ridiculous to keep to myself. I don't have the heart to tell her that there are other people on the planet that have things they'd rather the medical community didn't do to save their lives. But then again, who'd believe me? Scary people we used to hang around with. Anyway, here it goes.
My sister says:
"A sister forwarded this to me.
Subject: FW: Medical forms - blood
Hello:
Please keep your eyes open and read all of the fine print when checking into the hospital for any reason and be especially careful if it is an emergency situation. Satan has come up with another back door approach to invalidate our medical directive cards - BEWARE!Subject: advance medical directive
You'll never guess what I ran into! It's another lesson in: Never trust Satan's system. Jehovah's organization lovingly educated us as to the importance of the Advance Medical Directive, and even provided the necessary legal paperwork so that we would be protected, especially where the mis-use of blood might get into the picture. Now what could possibly go wrong here? We are fully prepared, aren't we?Now check this. Before a particular procedure I was given 3 pages to read with all kinds of stuff in small type: what problems had I ever had in the past; operations; meds I take, etc., the usual stuff. At the end I had to sign the papers. I assume that 99% of us trust our doctors and we sign, never expecting to run into a paragraph like this (word for word):
"I understand that advance directives are NOT honored at [this medical Center] and in the event of a life-threatening situation, emergency medical procedures will be instituted in every instance and patients will be transferred to a higher level of care where the
decision to continue or to terminate emergency measures can be made..."Friends, Satan isn't asleep -- always, always watch what you sign!
Ralph"