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Family of Alzheimer's patient SUE doctor who prolonged his life after ignoring his living will
A doctor suffering from Alzheimer's was allegedly kept alive for a month despite signing a will asking for no medical procedures to be taken.
Dr Gerald Greenberg, of Long Island, New York, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in 2010 and within six years could not communicate or even recognize his wife and two sons.
A year after his diagnosis, the 63-year-old wrote a living will stating he should only be given 'comfort measures' and 'no intravenous fluids and no antibiotics', in the event of his quality of life deteriorating.
But a doctor at Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital in Westchester County 'deliberately violated' the living will by giving him medication to keep him alive for another month.
Court documents submitted as part of a law suit state Dr Diego Escobar gave Dr Greenberg the drugs when he was admitted to hospital in November 2016.
As Dr Greenberg's condition 'meant that he would never be able to regain any type of normal mental or physical function', the family decided they would honor his wishes and let him pass away as quickly as possible.
Doctors were handed a copy of the will and the family were told Dr Greenberg may have life-threatening sepsis that could have killed him within four days.
But the next day Dr Escobar allegedly ordered a raft of tests and intravenous antibiotics be given to the patient.
This led to Dr Greenberg living for another month before dying of dehydration in December.
A lawsuit filed by the family state this treatment was 'in direct contradiction to the notes in the medical records', the New York Post reports.
His wife Elaine told the newspaper: 'I don't know if the doctor just wanted to force his own beliefs on Gerry and disobey his wishes.
'I don't know if they wanted to treat him like a cash cow doing tests and then billing insurance. There is no logical reason to go against [his living will].'
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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