The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe

If I could change one thing about healthcare, it would be how we handle end of life care. Sadly, hospitals are full of 80-90+ year old people who cannot walk or talk for years, advanced dementia plus many other serious comorbidities, with severe malnutrition and recurrent aspiration pneumonia, with large non-healing sacral ulcers, who shit and piss themselves, and the family continues to insist we "do everything" to help this person. It is by far the most demoralizing part of working in healthcare, in my opinion, and an astronomical amount of expenditure and effort goes into torturing these people - at the direct order of the family - only to prolong suffering a few more months.

I suspect this happens in the UK too, although doctors (in my very limited experience of this) do tell families the truth about what they can do.

I think there is a cultural problem about facing up to death, because people do not talk about it. It is a taboo subject to many, and people use euphemisms a lot (which is always a sign of a topic people do not want to talk about).

We need much better end of life care. Hospices seem to do a great job (no experience from the patient and family end, but I knew someone who used to work in one) but there are not enough of them.