The mother brought her daughter to a pediatrician who referred her to an ear, nose, and throat specialist (a surgeon). If a patient is deemed a candidate at all for a particular type of surgery, of course a surgeon will tell the patient that surgery is the best option.
I’ve had to deal with many surgeons. We lost my father to what turned out to be an unnecessary cancer-related surgery. (One surgeon insisted it was necessary. Afterward others said it probably wasn’t.)
I am lucky to have found surgeons I trust completely.
I don’t know why anyone dislikes the mother so much. I don’t know the woman, but my heart goes out to her and the rest of the family. I have been in the desperate position of trying to “save” a family member when something happened that shouldn’t have happened at a hospital.
There are risks for every surgery, and there were probably a lot of paper work and signatures pre-surgery.
The medical profession is not sainted. Docs push for surgeries to try out the latest techniques, and I believe a doc used my grandmother as a guinea pig decades ago. In the very least they will prescribe meds with dangerous and fatal side effects for issues that can be cured with simple lifestyle changes. I’m no fan of some of the profession’s tactics. That stated, the med business is under a lot of fire. Some docs must treat Medicaid and Medicare patients, even though the lose money doing so. My aunt, who is a nurse and runs my uncle’s very successful med office, said that they are reimbursed less today than they were 15 years ago. Refuse these patients, get a law suit. My uncle recently was hit with a malpractice suit as well. Ten thousand because his partner MIGHT have messed up a vasectomy three years ago. Juries treat malpractice insurance like the lottery. For the record, I’m a big alternative medicine fan.
In my urban community I see people like Jahi’s family all the time. Memorial t-shirts are part of their everyday wardrobes. We have a family that marches in front of the police station every year on the anniversary of a drug deal gone wrong death. The police could never get enough information from the “no snitchin’” witnesses. The family knows who killed their loved one, everybody knows that the family knows. But in true urbanite fashion they must wear shirts, carry signs, and demand justice because the police are too racist to solve the case. Jahi’s family reminds me of this.
We both have personal experiences that have shaded our views of this situation. We’re human, that’s what we do.