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Family of Oakland Girl on Ventilator Furious After Meeting With Hospital Officials (Tonsil Surgery)
Contra Costa Times ^ | 12/20/2013 | Kristin J. Bender, David DeBolt and Katie Nelson

Posted on 12/22/2013 4:26:20 PM PST by nickcarraway

The family fighting to keep a brain-dead 13-year-old girl on medical support through Christmas blasted administrators at Children's Hospital Oakland on Thursday evening, saying that hospital officials told them in a private meeting that the girl had to be taken off her ventilator "quickly."

"They said, 'What don't you understand?' She is dead, dead, dead,'" said Omari Sealey, the uncle of Jahi McMath, the Oakland teen who has been kept alive by machines since complications from a tonsil surgery last week in a case that has brought national attention and prayers from social media users around the world. "They just kept referring to her as 'a body.'"

The family's attorney, Christopher Dolan, said he will head to court on Friday morning to seek an injunction to halt any hospital intervention. Hospital officials have not given a timeline to remove the girl from the ventilator, he added

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"They keep saying she is 'dead, dead, dead' and I am hoping the courts will say 'no, no, no,'" Dolan said in a Thursday night news conference. "We just saw her; she is a beautiful young lady. She responds to her mother's touch. She is warm."

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Jahi had tonsil surgery to help her with sleep apnea, weight gain and other health problems and began bleeding from her nose and mouth and experienced cardiac arrest later that night.

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(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; jahimcmath; medicallynching; oakland; obamacare; omarisealey; racisthealthare; thankyouobama; whopaysforhercare
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This girl went into the hospital for tonsil surgery, the hospital screwed up- badly. Now they are trying to euthanize her to cover it up. Welcome to ACA.
1 posted on 12/22/2013 4:26:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

They should find some really good lawyers.


2 posted on 12/22/2013 4:29:05 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: nickcarraway

Can’t you just feel the compassion?


3 posted on 12/22/2013 4:29:51 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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I’ll bet they already have.


4 posted on 12/22/2013 4:30:43 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: GeronL

You have to wonder what the hospital is hiding.


5 posted on 12/22/2013 4:33:03 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: nickcarraway
The hospital wants her organs.

I was once in a similar situation. Paralyzied due to hospital error, on a ventilator and the hospital wanted my parents to turn it off so they can take my organs.

6 posted on 12/22/2013 4:33:18 PM PST by RginTN
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To: BunnySlippers

Who knows. All we know that if she is dead, then they killed her in a tonsil surgery. Not sure how much worse the truth can be than that.

Likely the cover-up is worse than the truth would have been. But who knows.


7 posted on 12/22/2013 4:34:36 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: nickcarraway

Glad they have a lawyer. So very sad.


8 posted on 12/22/2013 4:34:47 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Unbelievable how callous the hospital is - especially since it's their fault.

What was it that Ronald Reagan said about a nation that ceases to be good will soon cease to great? Or something like that.

Prayers for Jahi’s soul and for the family as well. Gut-wrenching.

9 posted on 12/22/2013 4:34:51 PM PST by Paulie
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What a nightmare. Tonsil removal.

When I was a kid ,during WWII, there was a hospital bed shortage and tonsils would be removed on the kitchen table.

Prayers for this child.

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10 posted on 12/22/2013 4:35:54 PM PST by Mears
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The very LEAST this hospital should do is give the family reassurance the girl stays alive through the end of the year. This hospital turning this into a war at Christmastime is horrible.


11 posted on 12/22/2013 4:36:03 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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Yes she may very well be dead, dead, dead.

For christ’s sake can you not let the parents have a few days with their daughter?

You nitwits killed her, and like total ghouls you want to harvest her organs and can’t let her parents have Christmas with her.

Disgusting.


12 posted on 12/22/2013 4:36:39 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: GeronL

Compassion is illegal under terms of the ACA.


13 posted on 12/22/2013 4:38:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: GeronL

What is the hospital saying happened?


14 posted on 12/22/2013 4:39:16 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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complications


15 posted on 12/22/2013 4:39:54 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: nickcarraway

I can buy that


16 posted on 12/22/2013 4:40:21 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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The ACA is going to be a horrific scourge on our healthcare system; but it hasn’t started yet. It only actually kicks in on January 1st. The only reason these parents have *any* say in keeping the daughter on life support is that there are private entities involved here. Once people have ACA insurance; the Independent Advisory Board. (Death Panel) will make the decision to pull the plug. The parents won’t have any say in the decision.


17 posted on 12/22/2013 4:40:23 PM PST by Reagan80 ("In this current crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem")
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They should find some really good lawyers.

Hope they can find highly competent lawyers.

Not sure you could find a good one.

18 posted on 12/22/2013 4:41:23 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: nickcarraway

“They said, ‘What don’t you understand?’ She is dead, dead, dead,’”


Sounds like something out of the mouth of Kathleen Sebelius..death panels are happening sooner than we think..this poor child, went to get a operation to help relieve her sleep apnea and now will probably die to to incompetence. Prayers for the family


19 posted on 12/22/2013 4:41:42 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Yes, good lawyers indeed. Else they’ll ‘Terry Schiavo” her for her parts.


20 posted on 12/22/2013 4:46:14 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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