{"id":10950,"date":"2007-05-08T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/08\/today-is-the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life.html"},"modified":"2007-05-08T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T22:24:13","slug":"today_is_the_first_day_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/today_is_the_first_day_of.html","title":{"rendered":"Today is the first day of the rest of your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can certainly understand the decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2007\/05\/07\/international\/i155325D82.DTL&amp;type=health\" target=\"_blank\">live the high life after being told you&#8217;re going to die Real Soon Now<\/a> &#8212; and that it might be a bit disconcerting if it all turned out to be an error &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"georgia md\" id=\"bodytext\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"georgia md\" id=\"bodytext\"><\/p>\n<p>A man who said he spent his life savings after being told he had months to live is seeking compensation after doctors conceded they had got the diagnosis wrong.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>John Brandrick, 62, was told two years ago that he had terminal pancreatic cancer, Britain&#8217;s Press Association news agency reported. He decided to spend his remaining time in style, quitting his job and spending his savings on hotels, restaurants and holidays.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A year later, doctors at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in southwest England revised their diagnosis: Brandrick was suffering from pancreatitis, a non-fatal ailment.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having sold his house and car and the like, he&#8217;s now taken the hospital to court.&nbsp; The doctors say the diagnosis is still supported by how the test results came out, and, despite a measure of sympathy, there was no negligence involved.<\/p>\n<p>(I think I actually got a tetanus shot at that hospital, on a trip to the UK long ago &#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can certainly understand the decision to live the high life after being told you&#8217;re going to die Real Soon Now &#8212; and that it might be a bit disconcerting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7484,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/the_supremes_wi.html","url_meta":{"origin":10950,"position":0},"title":"The Supremes will hear the Oregon Assisted Suicide case","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Feb-05 9:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Oregon's voters have repeatedly supported a law allowing patients, under well-proscribed circumstances, to request of their doctors assistance in ending their lives. 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