why can't the people at the hospital understand that the family would be more accepting of their daughter's death if they knew doctors had tried to revive her instead or quickly writing her off as dead.
Nothing like instilling a little fear into the family.
You know ... I AM the big dog hospital, and I know best, and if you take her away from ME ... wellll ... I can just tell you WHAT !
Just because we have the ability to keep her breathing and her heart beating with machines does not mean she is alive and it does not mean that it is the right thing to do.
It was NOT a routine surgery. Please refer to the three or four other article posts for more information.
They understand perfectly. To them, that girl is either a live body or a dead body that they control, and the parents have lost all rights to get her back. They would want to be in control and would go to the courts if they decided she's alive and the parents wanted to take her home.
In my mind, whether this girl is alive or dead shouldn't even be part of the discussion. The issue is that the parents should always have the right to take their child home from the hospital. What's being tested here is death panels, and if the hospitals start getting away with this stuff, a lot more people will be declared dead and families will lose all ability to control the situation.
A wealthier more connected family would never be the one to challenge the hospital's playing God. I suspect that in those cases the family would more likely be part of the decision making process. My prayers are with this family, for supporting life, and saying they hospital doesn't get to say who will live and who will die.
There might still be something underhanded going on right now—an effort to delay feeding her until starvation starts causing organ damage, making recovery increasingly less likely.
After three weeks of starvation, she is likely looking starved, her liver and kidneys are severely stressed, and her heart is at risk.
quickly writing her off as dead? The hospital has been ventilating a corpse for almost a month.....
As for a botched tonsillectomy she did not have a tonsillectomy, she had a much larger procedure called a UPPP. The hospital cannot “botch” anything, its a building. It would be a doctor or nursing staff that did the botching, if there was any, which has not been proven
However, the hospital administration is absorbing a huge bill that will not be paid by family or insurance for every day they are forced to continue the charade.
Routine tonsillectomy, there is no such thing. Especially on an obese child with obstructive sleep apnea. People need to read the pre-op consent. I’m sure it mentions brain damage and death. Any surgery on the airway is high risk. Hospitals promote themselves as spa’s while they are dangerous places that should be avoided. Her post-op care may have been negligent, but a post-op bleeding tonsil cause me anxiety when I get to take of one. Too bad this poor child was the one in 500,000 that do die from routine surgery.
Missing from the article is the fact that Dr. Byrne has not actually examined McMath. Of course, he doesn't need to examine her. As well as being an outspoken opponent of posthumous organ donation, The "nationally-respected" Dr. Paul A. Byrne doesn't believe in the concept of brain death calling it anti-Catholic propaganda.
Those words say much to me, we have given up any and all parental rights to government and now to hospital officials.
I know lawyers and their greedy clients have wrought much of what is now expected, our children are not our own but are wards of the State!
Whether children are "allowed" to live, die, be treated or given medical treatment against our will and/or our religious beliefs, is up to the State, not up to the parents (looking to others to pick up the expenses, also have brought us to where we now find ourselves,)