A married woman gets involved in a car wreck. She’s taken to the hospital, unconscious and brain-injured. The doctors need to perform surgery to remove excessive liquid in her brain, but her husband claims that her wife is a Christian Scientist who will not accept surgery. He claims that prayer will heal his wife.
The doctors maintain that unless they drain her brain and install a temporary drain tube on her head, she will die due to the continuous fluid buildup inside her skull.
Her parents assert she talked to them on the phone a few days before the accident, and the parents say that she told them that surgery was not against her evolving understanding of Christian Science. The parents want surgery performed immediately to relieve the pressure inside her skull and save her life.
Should Jeb stop the painful death of this woman due to the fluid buildup inside her skull? Should Jeb allow the husband to speak as her guardian?