#medicalableism — Public Fediverse posts

Audrey Boochever wrote this guide for grad students at UC Davis.

"Navigating Chronic Health Challenges & Autoimmune and
Mysterious Illnesses While in Graduate School:

A Resource Guide"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RZ2yipL0p5nCtfuwCMU770jnJ1dyLIOi/view #MedicalAbleism #NeoliberalHellhole #UCAccessNow

PS: there are very few ways to communicate more immediately to #disabled patients that they aren’t welcome in your practice. If you go out of your way to make sure it’s in the confirmation? That’s a pretty strong #FU🖕🏻 from the outset.

And y’all people have the audacity to complain that patients complain about you on the internet lol. What a joke. #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #IDoNotConsent #MaskUp #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #MedicalAbleism #YouDoYo[e]ugenics #InfectionControl

The pressures disabled people face in #Australia are not altogether very different from those of us in #Canada. Nearly half of disabled Australians live in poverty, over twice the OECD average and 2.5 times the Australian average: https://www.aruma.com.au/about-us/about-disability/disability-statistics/

https://justiceandpeace.org.au/living-with-disability/

We have 2x the unemployment rate & are more at risk of domestic violence, sexual assault, & mental illness. 100,000s of us sit on pensions that are half the Henderson poverty level, and less than 1% of rentals are even affordable to a person on the #DSP: https://www.miragenews.com/hearing-to-inquire-into-experiences-of-poverty-844466/

Our government has steadfastly rolled back pandemic protections over the last year: they know this plan will mass-kill disabled people, and create new disabled people, and they don't care.

So what’s going to happen when the state, refusing to offer enough resources to live, starts offering death on demand?

Many people don’t even qualify for disability services: non-citizens, except for refugees & asylum-seekers, can't get #Medicare (health care).

Non-citizens don't qualify for the #NDIS (support services) at all, regardless of disability severity.

Even citizens can't get the DSP (pension/money) without 10 years' residency and their condition being "fully treated" & "stabilised."

What does this mean?

#Eugenics #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #MedicalAbleism #VAD #VoluntaryAssistedDying

#KateCheney was one of the first people to die under #Oregon’s #DeathWithDignity law in 1999. After her doctor refused #euthanasia, her daughter Erika took her to 3 more doctors: the 4th noted that Erika was “coercive” & that “her choices may be influenced by her family’s wishes” but approved euthanasia anyway. Erika then left her at a nursing home for a week until she requested euthanasia, which was performed on the spot.

The Michigan Law review notes many other legal inconsistencies, systemic lack of data, & other cases of coercion: https://web.archive.org/web/20140123080900/http://www.michiganlawreview.org:80/assets/pdfs/106/8/hendinfoley.pdf

In 2008, a woman named #TamiSawyer moved in with a disabled man named #ThomasMiddleton; within a month she was named his heir and he was euthanised under Dying with Dignity. Two days later she sold his estate and pocketed the money: https://ctmirror.org/2015/03/06/op-ed-assisted-suicide-would-be-fraught-with-problems-and-abuses/

We only know about this because she was convicted of real estate fraud; there are no mechanisms to protect disabled people, nor was the state interested in investigating Middleton’s death.

Our lives have less value than the tax paid on property.

Linda Fleming, the first person to be euthanised in #Washington state, was divorced, bankrupt, and unable to work due to disability, yet her situation presented no “red flags” to the proponents of euthanasia who pushed for her to be euthanised: https://web.archive.org/web/20150701071719/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/23suicide.html?_r=0

#UnitedStates #MedicalAbleism #Eugenics

#KateCheney was one of the first people to die under #Oregon’s #DeathWithDignity law in 1999. After her doctor refused #euthanasia, her daughter Erika took her to 3 more doctors: the 4th noted that Erika was “coercive” & that “her choices may be influenced by her family’s wishes” but approved euthanasia anyway. Erika then left her at a nursing home for a week until she requested euthanasia, which was performed on the spot.

The Michigan Law review notes many other legal inconsistencies, systemic lack of data, & other cases of coercion: https://web.archive.org/web/20140123080900/http://www.michiganlawreview.org:80/assets/pdfs/106/8/hendinfoley.pdf

In 2008, a woman named #TamiSawyer moved in with a disabled man named #ThomasMiddleton; within a month she was named his heir and he was euthanised under Dying with Dignity. Two days later she sold his estate and pocketed the money: https://ctmirror.org/2015/03/06/op-ed-assisted-suicide-would-be-fraught-with-problems-and-abuses/

We only know about this because she was convicted of real estate fraud; there are no mechanisms to protect disabled people, nor was the state interested in investigating Middleton’s death.

Our lives have less value than the tax paid on property.

Linda Fleming, the first person to be euthanised in #Washington state, was divorced, bankrupt, and unable to work due to disability, yet her situation presented no “red flags” to the proponents of euthanasia who pushed for her to be euthanised: https://web.archive.org/web/20150701071719/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/23suicide.html?_r=0

#UnitedStates #MedicalAbleism #Eugenics

#KateCheney was one of the first people to die under #Oregon’s #DeathWithDignity law in 1999. After her doctor refused #euthanasia, her daughter Erika took her to 3 more doctors: the 4th noted that Erika was “coercive” & that “her choices may be influenced by her family’s wishes” but approved euthanasia anyway. Erika then left her at a nursing home for a week until she requested euthanasia, which was performed on the spot.

The Michigan Law review notes many other legal inconsistencies, systemic lack of data, & other cases of coercion: https://web.archive.org/web/20140123080900/http://www.michiganlawreview.org:80/assets/pdfs/106/8/hendinfoley.pdf

In 2008, a woman named #TamiSawyer moved in with a disabled man named #ThomasMiddleton; within a month she was named his heir and he was euthanised under Dying with Dignity. Two days later she sold his estate and pocketed the money: https://ctmirror.org/2015/03/06/op-ed-assisted-suicide-would-be-fraught-with-problems-and-abuses/

We only know about this because she was convicted of real estate fraud; there are no mechanisms to protect disabled people, nor was the state interested in investigating Middleton’s death.

Our lives have less value than the tax paid on property.

Linda Fleming, the first person to be euthanised in #Washington state, was divorced, bankrupt, and unable to work due to disability, yet her situation presented no “red flags” to the proponents of euthanasia who pushed for her to be euthanised: https://web.archive.org/web/20150701071719/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/23suicide.html?_r=0

#UnitedStates #MedicalAbleism #Eugenics

#KateCheney was one of the first people to die under #Oregon’s #DeathWithDignity law in 1999. After her doctor refused #euthanasia, her daughter Erika took her to 3 more doctors: the 4th noted that Erika was “coercive” & that “her choices may be influenced by her family’s wishes” but approved euthanasia anyway. Erika then left her at a nursing home for a week until she requested euthanasia, which was performed on the spot.

The Michigan Law review notes many other legal inconsistencies, systemic lack of data, & other cases of coercion: https://web.archive.org/web/20140123080900/http://www.michiganlawreview.org:80/assets/pdfs/106/8/hendinfoley.pdf

In 2008, a woman named #TamiSawyer moved in with a disabled man named #ThomasMiddleton; within a month she was named his heir and he was euthanised under Dying with Dignity. Two days later she sold his estate and pocketed the money: https://ctmirror.org/2015/03/06/op-ed-assisted-suicide-would-be-fraught-with-problems-and-abuses/

We only know about this because she was convicted of real estate fraud; there are no mechanisms to protect disabled people, nor was the state interested in investigating Middleton’s death.

Our lives have less value than the tax paid on property.

Linda Fleming, the first person to be euthanised in #Washington state, was divorced, bankrupt, and unable to work due to disability, yet her situation presented no “red flags” to the proponents of euthanasia who pushed for her to be euthanised: https://web.archive.org/web/20150701071719/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/23suicide.html?_r=0

#UnitedStates #MedicalAbleism #Eugenics

#Euthanasia safeguards are not enforced. In 2016, an elderly Dutch woman with dementia verbally refused euthanasia 3x, so Dr. #MarinouArends had drugged her with a sedative. When she still sat up & tried to resist being euthanised, Dr. Arends had her son-in-law hold her down.

Dr Arends was prosecuted and convicted for murder, and 220 Dutch doctors signed a letter saying they would not euthanise a patient without their express agreement, even though Dutch law doesn’t require it. (source in Dutch): https://nos.nl/artikel/2157398-grote-groep-artsen-tegen-euthanasie-bij-demente-ouderen

Arends was cleared of all wrongdoing by the #DutchSupremeCourt in 2020, which held that the woman’s refusal *was itself* evidence of her lack of capacity to decide for herself if she wanted to die, because of course any sane person would rather be dead than disabled or elderly.

Most English language news sources, such as this one, are supportive of this eugenic view, even presenting the same facts (drugging her, holding her down) as neutral or positive elements of the euthanasia process: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/groupthink-exposed-in-prosecution-of-dutch-doctor-in-euthanasia-case-1.4285547

This view has become so pervasive that as of 2016, 1 out of 30 people in the #Netherlands now die by euthanasia: https://web.archive.org/web/20210307123258/https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal-articles/social-consequences-of-assisted-dying-a-case-study

#VoluntaryAssistedDying #VAD #MedicalAbleism #Eugenics