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Penny Smith

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1113 total appearances

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Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So people, they'll either respond to it by having their symptoms relieved or they won't. And then we'll need to give them more. And we're usually keeping track of that too. So we will usually start with an as needed. So it might be five milligrams of morphine every four hours as needed. And then if that's not working, it might be every two hours. And then it might be every one hour.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So people, they'll either respond to it by having their symptoms relieved or they won't. And then we'll need to give them more. And we're usually keeping track of that too. So we will usually start with an as needed. So it might be five milligrams of morphine every four hours as needed. And then if that's not working, it might be every two hours. And then it might be every one hour.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

And then it might be every 15 minutes until we're getting their pain managed. And then after we've given a certain amount, it depends on how long the person is expected to live. If it's somebody that's going to live for a while, then we're going to try to convert them to a long-acting morphine. So we...

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

And then it might be every 15 minutes until we're getting their pain managed. And then after we've given a certain amount, it depends on how long the person is expected to live. If it's somebody that's going to live for a while, then we're going to try to convert them to a long-acting morphine. So we...

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

And then it might be every 15 minutes until we're getting their pain managed. And then after we've given a certain amount, it depends on how long the person is expected to live. If it's somebody that's going to live for a while, then we're going to try to convert them to a long-acting morphine. So we...

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

look at how much morphine they've had, and we calculate how much that is over 24 hours, and then we would give it to them in a long acting dose, or we might start an infusion on them so that they're getting continuous pain relief. We never want to try to chase after pain. We want to get on top of it and we want to stay on top of it.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

look at how much morphine they've had, and we calculate how much that is over 24 hours, and then we would give it to them in a long acting dose, or we might start an infusion on them so that they're getting continuous pain relief. We never want to try to chase after pain. We want to get on top of it and we want to stay on top of it.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

look at how much morphine they've had, and we calculate how much that is over 24 hours, and then we would give it to them in a long acting dose, or we might start an infusion on them so that they're getting continuous pain relief. We never want to try to chase after pain. We want to get on top of it and we want to stay on top of it.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So oftentimes people will say they were giving morphine even when she didn't need it anymore. She wasn't in pain anymore. Why wasn't she in pain? Because we were giving her morphine. So we still need to be giving that drug so that they can be continuing to have their symptoms.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So oftentimes people will say they were giving morphine even when she didn't need it anymore. She wasn't in pain anymore. Why wasn't she in pain? Because we were giving her morphine. So we still need to be giving that drug so that they can be continuing to have their symptoms.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So oftentimes people will say they were giving morphine even when she didn't need it anymore. She wasn't in pain anymore. Why wasn't she in pain? Because we were giving her morphine. So we still need to be giving that drug so that they can be continuing to have their symptoms.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

Near as I can tell when I read their comments, which isn't very often just for entertainment once in a while or to get myself spun up unnecessarily. I will go in their comment section. But yeah, it appears that these people did not have the decision making. People can revoke hospice. You don't have to be on hospice. You can at any time say, I don't want hospice.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

Near as I can tell when I read their comments, which isn't very often just for entertainment once in a while or to get myself spun up unnecessarily. I will go in their comment section. But yeah, it appears that these people did not have the decision making. People can revoke hospice. You don't have to be on hospice. You can at any time say, I don't want hospice.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

Near as I can tell when I read their comments, which isn't very often just for entertainment once in a while or to get myself spun up unnecessarily. I will go in their comment section. But yeah, it appears that these people did not have the decision making. People can revoke hospice. You don't have to be on hospice. You can at any time say, I don't want hospice.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So if you are the decision maker and your person is no longer decisional and they're on hospice and you think that hospice is trying to kill them, then you can revoke the benefit. You can say, you know what? I don't want this anymore. So when they're saying this, I'm always thinking, why? Well, if you were the decision maker, then why didn't you do that?

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So if you are the decision maker and your person is no longer decisional and they're on hospice and you think that hospice is trying to kill them, then you can revoke the benefit. You can say, you know what? I don't want this anymore. So when they're saying this, I'm always thinking, why? Well, if you were the decision maker, then why didn't you do that?

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

So if you are the decision maker and your person is no longer decisional and they're on hospice and you think that hospice is trying to kill them, then you can revoke the benefit. You can say, you know what? I don't want this anymore. So when they're saying this, I'm always thinking, why? Well, if you were the decision maker, then why didn't you do that?

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

And if you weren't the decision maker, there's a reason why you weren't the decision maker, because you weren't trusted with that decision. You would have made the wrong choice for your person, causing them to suffer at the end of their life.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

And if you weren't the decision maker, there's a reason why you weren't the decision maker, because you weren't trusted with that decision. You would have made the wrong choice for your person, causing them to suffer at the end of their life.

Matt Beall Limitless
Hospice Unfiltered: Death, TikTok & the Truth | #47 Penny Smith

And if you weren't the decision maker, there's a reason why you weren't the decision maker, because you weren't trusted with that decision. You would have made the wrong choice for your person, causing them to suffer at the end of their life.