Posted on 12/26/2013 8:20:32 AM PST by Morgana
OAKLAND, Calif. — A Northern California family who lost their bid to keep their 13-year-old daughter on life support says "there is still time for a miracle."
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo has ruled that Jahi McMath, who was declared brain dead after suffering complications following a tonsillectomy, can be removed from the ventilator keeping her body functioning.
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The parents need to sue the crap out of that hospital and all of the doctors involved for negligence which led to death.
Time to harvest her organs, too.
Did her parents put her down for organ donation?
Was there negligence involved? I ask that because I know people die all the time in hospitals with no negligence involved. So ... were there indications of negligence?
If you looked at the pic of her on the news she looks morbidly obease, ya EVEN think THAT may have contributed to her “complications”?
Ah, good. Maybe Florida can pass the torch to California for the next “Schiavo-gate.”
How the human brain makes connections and functions is not understood at all.
We have enough “miraculous” wake ups years later to know that many times, there is enough functionality undetected that works continuously to route new connections, restart itself.
Life wants to be.
Yet another tyrant judge, ignorant of biology, chooses expediency. The doctors simply gave him statistics. They know they have limited knowledge of what is happening.
A heart still beats. And a body still lives. Who is he to terminate that?
This needs to be the parent’s decision, not the doctors or the courts.
I agree if the parents are footing the bill.
It is however, highly likely that obesity was one of the primary drivers behind why she was having her tonsils removed in the first place. Sleep apnea.
Sad affair. Prayers for her and her family.
And if her body told her (asleep or awake) that she as suffocating, wouldn't that result in agitation ---pitching around --- which could rip open sutures?
I think we (FReepers) should stop finding these doctors guilty of malpractice and/or negligence, until there's evidence. People do die from complications of surgery.
The ventilator ussue is after the fact of a simple operation somehow causing massive bleeding and the resulting brain damage because of it.
THAT'S the law suit, imo.
The poor young girl is black which makes this a hate crime...
Instead, she gets a permanent hospital-induced dirt nap.
And, the hospital is trying to minimize her death just so they are not made responsible.
I have never heard of removing perfectly healthy tonsils for sleep apnea.
The hospital and her doctor who recommended the surgery ought to be made to pay.
I don’t know if there was negligence. I read somewhere that it wasn’t a “tonsellectomy” that it was a much more involved surgery. And that health privacy laws are preventing the full information from being released.
It is not murder in any sense of the word --- religious, legal, or ethical --- to remove a body from such life support as a ventilator, when that body is brain dead. You do not have to ventilate a corpse until it rots off the table.
This is to be distinguished from the situation of a person like Terri Schiavo, who was not brain dead, and not even dying --- no, not even "terminal" --- when they removed her nutrition and hydration. In her case, even though she was breathing on her own and responsive, her husband Michael wanted her gone, for whatever reason of weariness, confused compassion or personal interest (she did have assets he would inherit) --- and when at last she died, she did not die of her "underlying condition," she died of hunger and thirst: starvation and dehydration.
That, my friends, was murder.
In the pathetic situation reported on this thread, death has occurred. (That is.... if what was reported is true.)
Burying the dead is also a Work of Mercy. May the Lord comfort this shocked and grieving family. It must be unbelievably hard.
The sleep apnea itself can be a serious condition that leads to high blood pressure, stroke and/or brain damage due to lack of oxygen.
I don't envy the judges role in this. There are many factors to consider, including who is paying for the care, whether the hospital room is needed for other patients, and how low the odds are that the girl would make a miraculous recovery.
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