In the Midst of Life (58 page)

and spontaneous recovery,
138

cancer patients,
81
—
126
,
128
—
44
,
298
—
306
,
318
—
28
,
362
—
3

Cancer Research Foundation,
144

cannulation,
357

cardiac arrests,
237
,
240
—
1
,
257
,
339
,
341
—
44
,
352
—
3
,
359
,
369
,
373
—
4

cardiac stimulants,
21
,
24
,
238
—
9

care homes,
38
—
9
,
197
—
202

and agency staff,
303

and deaths,
197
—
9

and force-feeding,
199
—
200

nursing homes,
38
—
9
,
190
—
1
,
298
—
303

and profit motive,
201
—
2

and resuscitation,
254
,
258
,
348

Care Quality Commission (CQC),
206
—
10

catheters, and prostate cancer,
90
—
1

cerebral haemorrhages,
170
—
1
,
179
,
182
—
3
,
243

Chamberlain, Professor

Douglas,
359

chemotherapy,
81
,
318

chest (lung) infections,
21
,
41
,
48

see also
pneumonia and ‘the old man’s friend’

Cheyne Stokes breathing,
80

children

and death,
33
,
147
—
53
,
163

funerals of,
156
—
7

and grief,
152

choking,
196
,
281

cholera,
168

Christianity,
332

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
363
,
366

Church of England,
280

City and Guilds,
208

cleft palate,
221

codeine,
64

colitis,
180

colostomies,
15
,
18
,
20
—
22
,
30
—
35

comas,
344
—
5

Community First Responders,
251
,338

concentration camps,
22
—
3
,
28
,
35
,
52
,
74
,
116
—
17
,
218

confusion,
194

constipation,
231
,
290
,
298
,
303

consultants

remoteness of,
22

and fear of litigation,
186
—
8

see also
doctors

Contagious Diseases Act,
164

corneal reflex,
345

coronary arteries, occlusion of,
272
,358

coroners,
249

Cotterill, Edith,
80

counsellors,
159
,
161

Court of Protection,
374

Cox, Mrs,
81
—
4

crash teams,
238
,
240
—
1

cremations,
156

Criminal Records Bureau,
206

Critical Care Paramedics (CCPs),
358

Cunningham, Mrs,
111
—
26

Dartford,
357

Darzi Report,
365

deafness,
195

death

as active process,
99
—
100

definition of,
197

with dignity,
118
,
312

death—
contd

fear of,
124
—
6

at home,
161
—
3

and hospitals,
48
—
9
,
146
,
161
,
244
,312

and the living,
15
9—61

from old age,
5
,
7
,
45

social attitudes to,
146
—
53

verification of,
351
—
2

violent,
146
,
148
—
9

‘death agony’,
28

death certificates,
7
,
352

death rituals,
56

see also
funerals

decapitation,
253

decomposition,
253

defensive medicine,
48
,
283

see also
litigation, fear of

defibrillators portable,
252
,
337

see also
Automatic External Defibrillators; Internal Cardiac Defibrillators

dehydration,
383

delirium,
382
—
3

dementia,
35
,
194
—
5
,
278
,
308
,
371

see also
Alzheimer’s disease

depression,
54
,
158
,
190
,
194
—
5

diabetes,
69
,
71
,
76
—
7
,
216
—
17
,
231
—
2

diamorphine,
362

diarrhoea,
231
,
303
,
309
,
382

digitalis,
216
—
17

Dignitas clinic,
313
,3 24—5

Dignity in Dying,
312
,
349

Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) orders,
242
—
3
,
251
,
253
—
6
,
258
,
349
,
346
—
8
,
356
,
360
—
1
,
365
—
7
,
372
,
374
,
376

doctors

and death,
54
—
6
,
230
—
2

and fear of litigation,
242

and incurable conditions,
136
—
7

and public expectations,
242

see also
consultants

Doctrine of Double Effect,
383

Doherty Mrs,
165
—
91

Downes, Sir Edward and Lady,
313
—
14

drowning,
253
,
338
,
354

Dublin,
243

duodenal ulcers,
309

ECG interpretation,
357
—
8

Edinburgh,
243

electrocution,
337
,
338
,
354

electrolyte balance,
230
,
382
—
3

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital,
171
,
308

embolism,
170

End of Life Care,
210
,
368
—
86

endomorphs,
107

endotracheal intubation,
339
,
357

enemas,
231
,
290
,
298
,
304

ether convulsion,
15

ethics committees,
211
,
251
,
346

euthanasia,
117
,
122
,
307
—
13

Euthanasia Society,
118
,
123

evolution,
309

faith, decline of,
332

FASTrack stroke pathway,
359

feed-pegs,
199
,
282

see also
naso-gastric tubes

films,
146
,
148

Final Lap, The,
197

First World War,
26
,
102
—
3
,
153
,
205
,
218
,
260

flavine,
231

flu epidemic,
153

force-feeding,
98
,
199
—
200

forgiveness,
218

frontal-temporal degeneration 278

funerals,
153
,
155
—
8

gall bladder,
229

gangrene,
21

gastrectomy,
13
,
129

gastrostomy,
199
—
200

General Medical Council,
350

geriatrics,
294

Germany,
51
,
53
,
316
,
328