How Would You Like to be a Patient in this Hospital?

We all want to believe that our hospitals and doctors always act in patient's best interests. Sadly, you'd have to be dangerously naive to believe that nowadays in Texas. But don't take our word for it. Click here to hear a Texas hospital threaten to send a patient "on to glory" because the family can't pay.

This is in the public record for Texas Senate Health and Human Services Hearing of April 12, 2007. To verify, watch this Senate video -- advance the video to 4:18:08 to see the testimony.

Our Purpose...

Protecting Texas Patients

Andrea Clark was not the first Texas patient to be threatened with the "death by ethics committee" verdict, nor was she the last. At this very moment, other patients and their families fight in silence to prevent forced euthanasia of their critically ill loved ones in Texas hospitals.

This website has a single purpose: to prevent patients from being euthanized by the hospitals entrusted to care for them. Our ultimate means of protecting patients is to change the law that gives hospitals the God-like power to determine who lives or dies in their care. Until the law is changed, patients have only the protection of public outrage to protect them from forced euthanasia.

But changing laws takes a long time and in the meantime, the only protection we can offer patients is to alert them and their families to identities of doctors who have initiated the ethics committee procedure to withhold life-sustaining treatment from patients, and the hospitals whose ethics committees have ruled to uphold those doctors' decisions.

Let this be a warning to those doctors and hospitals: If you don't want the dirty little secret that you support euthanasia to be spread across the globe, then don't initiate the "death by ethics committee" procedure on your patients. If you do, your name will be on this website and will be linked to dozens of other pro-life sites. People will call you Dr. Death behind your back and maybe even to your face and you'll deserve it.

And let this also be a warning to Texas legislators: If you portray yourself as a "pro-life" candidate and/or a "pro-individual rights" candidate and you don't take a stand both in rhetoric and in VOTES to change the current law so that hospitals can no longer legally euthanize patients, prepare to be embarrassed; prepare to be exposed as a mouthpiece for corporate health care, a "bought and paid-for" tool of corporate medicine, instead of a representative of the people of Texas.

We have declared war on this law. Regardless of your party affiliation, regardless of the special interest group with which you identify, if you support this law, or even a compromise with this law, prepare for a fight that will not end until hospitals no longer have the right to euthanize patients. Decide now if you can afford to lose this. Because you WILL lose.

We are growing stronger every day and we will NEVER give up.