A new operator for palliative care
Oscar is a cat with an incredible ability: it captures the moment when patients approach the end of life. Has demonstrated its capacity by nearly 50 people.
This cat-and-white in color with spots similar to the scales of a turtle, spends his days running from room to room and rarely with the remaining patients, except with those who do not have many more hours live.
The Dr. David Dosa, an assistant at Brown University, said that in the past five years in the nursing home, Oscar, this foundling cat, you're never wrong in his predictions about the death of patients.
The kitten was adopted by the Steere House Nursing and Reabilitation Centre, in Providence, Rhode Island, house specializing in treating people suffering from severe dementia , has always shown little sociable.
Dr. David Dosa initially praised the Oscar gift in an article published on New England Journal of Medicine in 2007. Since then, the cat has doubled the number of patients who received the start and has finally convinced the doctor of his talent.
If the patient's room is closed in agony, Oscar scratch the door until someone apre.Una time, Oscar has developed a nurse next to a patient who was thought to be close to death . Oscar jumped out of bed and headed to another patient.
Findings of the cat was better than that of nurses: The second patient died in the evening, while the former has experienced yet two days.
Dr. David Dosa and all the staff believe so strongly in the Oscar predictions that inform the patient's family when the cat jumps on a bed and lies down next to its occupant. 
" And hesitates to get up his occupations in two minutes, eat some kibble and returns close to the patient. It is as if he were waking ... "writes Dr.. David Dosa
" The nursing home has five other cats, but no one has ever shown such an ability "adds the doctor .
In his book, The extraordinary gift of an ordinary cat dr. David Dosa offers no scientific explanation for the behavior of Oscar. Suggests that Oscar receives, like dogs, the smell of ketones, metabolites released from dying cells.
Far from being scared of the presence of Oscar and aware of its value, relatives and friends of patients are comforted by his presence so much that, sometimes, make the eulogy on the death notices in newspapers.
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