Posted on 10/16/2017 4:42:06 PM PDT by sparklite2
The organ transplant of a 2-year-old boy who was born without a kidney will likely be stalled for months.
The reason? His father’s latest arrest.
In a letter The AJC obtained from Burgess, a hospital official said the surgery would be pushed back until Dickerson could provide evidence he has complied with his parole officer for three months.
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I'm no lawyer but it seems to me that a legal representative of the child...perhaps one appointed by a court...could challenge this ruling in court.
Perhaps even on an "urgent" basis.
The sins of the father are being visited upon his son. Not cool Emory University Hospital. Not cool at all.
Is the father the donor?
This is nuts. A judge should have the father go to the hospital to donate and recover, then handle whatever probation issue. He won’t be going anywhere for a while after having a kidney removed.
Is the father the donor?
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Yes.
That's my understanding.
Yes, it appears the father is the match. Makes you wonder if the father doesn’t want to go through with the kidney donation, so he got himself arrested again.
Having a kidney removed is not like having a wart removed. If he doesn’t follow all the doctor’s orders it could well kill him. There’d be a lot of liability there.
Their refusal to allow the operation to continue is just wrong. Police could easily take dad to the hospital with armed guards to allow the surgery to proceed. The 2 year old innocent son should not be the one punished for the actions of his father when the operation could take place. I think the hospital is being absolutely obtuse. Like the mother said this is about the 2 year old, not the father, and I for one agree with her.
Aaw,he’s such a little guy-——I hope he gets what he needs.
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“I hope he gets what he needs.”
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Yup. If the father’s good to go, everything else can wait. Take care of the tyke first, then take whatever the parole issue. It’s hard to believe any hospital would want to delay the transplant surgery.
I thought it was the patient a doctor was to care about first.
“Police could easily take dad to the hospital with armed guards to allow the surgery to proceed.”
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Like I said, he won’t be going anywhere for awhile afterwards. A friend had such a transplant from her mom and it’s actually tougher on the donor physically than the recipient.
Poor kid. :(
Yes, let’s force the doctors and nurses to work at gunpoint with unlimited financial liability.
Where do those idiots think they are? Some free country somewhere?
The hospital where I worked (a very large,well known one) had an agreement with the state's Department of Corrections to provide care for their inmates.As a result it was a matter of routine to see patients both in our ER and elsewhere in the hospital handcuffed to their stretcher/bed and being escorted/guarded by two Department of Corrections guards.
Although I could be wrong I think that this would be common in any major US hospital which Emory surely is.
see Post #18
The father is the donor. That is why the tie-up.
The father has been in and out of jail his whole life.
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