[Cat loving Texan]

Sounds like she may survive, but they're not making it easy.

[sarasota]

"Ethics" committee recommends stopping treatment. The world is upside down.

[Brilliant]

Not really like Schiavo since only the doctors want to pull the plug. But it illustrates that once you start down the slippery slope, there is no stopping.

The solution to this problem is to have the legislature do its job, and pass laws that govern this instead of simply leaving it up to the parties and the courts to decide what to do based solely on their own preferences.


But like so many things, the legislators think their job is to collect a big paycheck, make speaches, and be famous. They don't seem to comprehend that they are responsible for making policy, and even if they did, they have no clue how to do so since the qualifications for getting elected have no relationship to whether you understand policy issues.

[yellowdoghunter]

She also represents a family in Houston in a similar situation. The hospital there, St. Luke's Episcopal, found a placement, also in Illinois, for the patient, Andrea Clark. But that hospital has not agreed to a similar extension, Ward said.

There is a thread over at DU about this Andrea Clark case, one of her family members is a DU'er. She gives credit to the pro-lifers who helped save her sister. She also thanks DU'er for helping to keep the story in the media.

I will go and try to find the link.

[cva66snipe]

Her mother has had two strokes and has lost the ability to talk and move. She speaks Vietnamese, not English, which could account for the blank stares nurses and doctors say they get, Trinh said.

Many misconceptions come from medical reports and are on patients charts. My wife used to be a CNA. She had a patient that she fed who would chatter to her and get excited when my wife would enter the room. The woman would turn her head but didn't give others this response.

She was doing charting and saw they had the patient as being deaf. She told her supervisor she's not deaf. So they said prove it then. The nurse hid behind a door and my wife went in the room and called the patients name the woman turned around and started chattering real excited. The nurse was then convinced. What had happened the woman was European Jewish and up till the time her family brought her here she only spoke Russian. The woman understood some English my wife taught her such as cookie etc. She also had numbers tattooed on her. Yea in a nursing home environment and her being from where she was I reckon she figured keeping her mouth shut was the safest thing to do.

[wagglebee]

Another woman that Texis is trying to murder.

[8mmMauser]

Meanwhile, we just got word that St. Luke's at the last minute reneged on Andrea Clarke and may start their killing process on her soon. They agreed to let her go to Chicago and arrangements were made, then, oops. See Terri APRIL Dailies

8mm