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JayhawkSD

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3. Your concern is kind and becomes you.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:28 AM
Aug 2017

But there is great danger in playing doctor without a medical license. You do not know what his "neurological condition" is. You "think the nursing home put him on tranquilizers or something like that to make it easier to take care of him," but on what are you basing that conclusion? Not knowing what his condition is and not being a doctor, you cannot know if the condition is one which becomes worse due to natural progression or not.

You mention family. Presumably his medical providers are consulting with his family. They are not allowed by law to consult with you, nor to accept input from you as to his care.

You are a former employee, and it is one thing to care about him, but it is quite another to interfere in his medical care with neither authority or responsibility.

Again, I do not mean this as criticism. You mean well. But sometimes all we can do is offer kind thoughts and, if such is our way, prayers.

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