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Murder
No reason to try to help. Their odds are too low for survival. Better to save those funds and resources for important and life-improving things like scalp massages for political leaders and extra care rationed out based on race statistics.
This is the kind of statement I would have previously expected to hear from the USSR, or China.
I can't imagine the pain this woman went through watching this happen, helplessly. Twenty-two weeks is right on the cusp of possible survival, and maybe there wasn't a chance, but it's hard to know for sure - and it's sometimes hard to know dates for sure. This kind of ‘policy-driven’ medical decision making takes empathy and humanity out of medicine.
I wonder, if this child had been born to the Royal family, what would have been done?
Let me guess, their new policy will be for the attending physician to throw newborns out the window.
This attitude reminds me of the last time a relative of mine was in the Intensive Care Unit. Most of the Docs and staff had decided that the person had lived long enough, and that his time was up, and he should just be given comfort care.
No one was willing to go all out to help him, and in fact “mistakes” kept happening which made it even harder for him to fight successfully.
Accident? Who doesn't notice setting a baby down on a pair of scissors? More likely a compassionate God-fearing nurse slipped the most convenient small object she could onto that scale without anyone noticing.
Like the Hebrew midwives who saved the baby boys by telling pharaobama that the Hebrew woman delivered more quickly than the Egyptians, before they could get to them.
That was quite a few years ago...I think the standard weeks have gone down a couple...not sure about weight.
Back then the outcomes were not good for 23-24 weeker's....
My wife and I had a 22 week baby and I wouldn't wish that on anyone....It was a mis-carry...delivered dead. It was horrible....
That was before I was in the health care biz....
FWIW-
These death policies are the inevitable result of socialism. Socialized medicine is so much more expensive to maintain than private medicine because of the unbelievable number of paper pusher jobs that the bureaucracy generates. There is an ever shrinking percentage of the funds allocated to actual medical treatment while the desk jockeys multiply in numbers and rates of remuneration. Eventually you end up with a National Health Service that employs millions (and well paid millions at that) and treats no one.
Was the body then burned for electricity?
>22-week premature son die in her arms
In her arms? A 14 week old child would fit easily in the palm of her hand. If I remember correctly, about the size of a peach and approximately 3/4 of an ounce in weight.
I’ve never heard of a baby that can survive outside of the womb before about 20 weeks.
The hospital was running low on fuel to heat the building.