Posted on 04/07/2014 7:29:50 PM PDT by Morgana
The guy was estranged from the wife for five years and was currently going through divorce proceedings.....Divorce seems like a conflict of interest to me.Until it's actually signed and sealed by the court, you're still married and it doesn't matter what's going on. Your spouse has got the control.
I’m so sorry.
You’re right, the spouse does have the control....however, his family went to court and became his guardians (or medical guardians, I guess). The hospital still did what the illegal guardian (the soon to be ex-wife) wanted anyway and took away his hydration and feeding until his parents found out.
The parents had the control; the hospital ignored them.
The parents had the control; the hospital ignored them.Huh. The way I was reading it, the timeline is that the wife came down and ordered the tubes out, the parents found out and filed for guardianship, and then after it was granted they had the tubes put back in but it was too late. Am I reading that wrong?
You are right. I misunderstood the original article. Thanks for clearing that up.
Wrong. The hospital surprised the family be removing his feeding tube again, after the court had ordered them to reconnect it. They did this in blatant violation of the court order, and they misled the family about it.
This is not uncommon. This is the way brain injured patients are treated. Good luck picking twelve random people who would hand down a guilty verdict in such a case. You’d play hell finding twelve random FReepers who could agree that it’s wrong to murder someone with a severe brain injury.
That’s what I thought originally, BykrBayb. I’m not sure. I reread the article and its links again, and GAFreedom may be right.
Either way, it does seem sometimes that hospitals are quick to hurry the demise of brain injured patients. You have to watch them when it comes to the elderly as well.
This is a good reason for people to specify who will be making medical decisions for them if they’re not able to do so.
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