Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 02/23/2011 7:12:33 AM PST by dynachrome
Should Canada Let Doctors Take Boy Off Life Support Despite Parent's Objections?
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Ok serious question here
Whose paying for it?
If it was my money - I would spend every cent to keep my son alive, by any means.
But I would not spend your money.
Since Canada has wonderful government health- they all get to say on it, don’t they?
Of course not. They do have the right to say they won’t pay for it anymore. But they have no right to remove anyone from medical tratment.
Healthcare rationing. It’s all “free” in Canada.
Yes, murder is just fine by me.
10.8% (2,200 votes)
Not just no, but HELL NO! ARE YOU FRICKIN’ NUTS?
86.84% (17,684 votes)
I am as wise as Solomon, and I know what to do.
2.36% (480 votes)
Total Votes: 20,364
The boy has no chance of recovery.
The parents asked if they could take him so he could die at home.
His sister died of the same affliction and the courts allowed them to take her home to die.
I don’t see what the difference is here, other than someone trying to assert their ‘authority’.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Can there be a better case against government-run health care than this?
Once 0bamaCare takes hold, this will be commonplace, especially as the State makes life and death decisions over the objections of family members.
There was a post about this a few days ago. The parents want the boy to have a tracheostomy done so they can take him home to die. The hospital doesn’t want to do the tracheostomy.
Yep. Exactly.
They did the the trach for his sister, but now are denying the parents a trach for the boy.
Doesn’t make sense why they would do that, other than the ‘authority’ thing.
What are the facts?
One can’t make decision based on the information given.
Had he any chance of recovery - Full or partial?
Are the parents willing to pay the expenses if there is no chance of recovery?
Awful to have this happen once but for it to happen twice is beyond horrible. What is the affliction?
I can’t remember what it was.
It was an article on here yesterday.
But whatever it is, it’s not curable.
Sad.
I doubt it’s all based on “authority,” from my experience in medicine, especially on a case like this where scrutiny is inevitable.
It may be multiple things - they now know more about the nature of the disease and that it’s rapidly fatal, the individual surgeon refuses because he judges it “futile care,” the hospital doesn’t want to pay for it because it the child is already in a vegetative state, etc.
But they weren’t asking for in hospital care.
They asked for a trach tube to be inserted so they could take their son home to die.
Just like the hospital did for their daughter.
So yes, Somebody is just ‘leveraging’ their authority here.
Has nothing to do with ‘futile care’ because the boy is going to die anyway.
Sorry, but that may be the very definition of "futile care" - the boy is going to die soon no matter what they do for him. The trach accomplishes only one thing - he can die at home, at the physical, emotional, and financial cost of a tracheostomy. If he can feel anything (debatable) it puts him through a surgical procedure only so he can die in one place rather than another. One can come down on either side of the argument, but there's definitely an argument to be made, rather than "leveraging authority."
If you read some of the articles, this has already been brought before a Superior Court Justice who ruled against further appeal by the family. That would seem to take it out of the realm of a single medical person "leveraging authority."
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