[Arthur McGowan]

Are the Obama Flu and Obama Polio caused by the same virus?

[Gay State Conservative]

If that was my child I would get her to Chicago,Cleveland,the Mayo Clinic or New York ASAP.Having worked in a major,and well known,hospital taught me many things...one being that the more dangerous and/or rare the illness the greater the need to get the patient to a major hospital.Small and medium sized hospitals are usually fine for simple pneumonia or appendicitis but they’re *terrible* with uncommon conditions.

[heartwood]

prayers said for Lila and her family.

May the Lord shake some conscience and compassion back into those doctors!

This is not “futile” treatment; this is care for a little girl in an early and treatable stage of illness.

None of us leave the world alive.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Is this doctor the arbiter of whose life is worthy of treatment?

No. But he now answers to those who are.

[skinkinthegrass]

sounds like "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah's DeathCARE stormtroopers are operating...

[trisham]

Why should Lila not be offered the same level of care as any other child? Why shouldn’t she be given steroids to help her feel better faster? Why shouldn’t they run tests? How is it OK to stick her in a room for 4 hours and never offer her Tylenol for her fever and discomfort? How is it ok that her nurse never even came in to assess her? How is Lila’s life worth less than the other children in the hospital?

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Poor baby. This alone is cruelty, and they know it.

[huldah1776]

Author is part of an organization called Save The 1 and they have a blog...

http://savethe1.blogspot.com/

[huldah1776]

My nephew has Williams Syndrome and when a baby had a life expectancy of 3 at best. He is 25. Was taken care of at Children’s of Philly, not perfectly but there are always unknowns (allergy to anesthesia lead to a stroke) and parents are into natural foods and vitamins.

[DesertRhino]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDheXEIxWas

The solution for such doctors

[Usagi_yo]

I pray for your child above all else on this topic.

“At that point, the doctor from the PICU looked Kayse in the eye and asked if she knew anything about trisomy 18 children and their life expectancies, and how Lila is past her life expectancy.”

The perfect answer was to ask “What are you suggesting then?” Whenever somebody pesters me with a euphemistic response I challenge them on the spot to be direct. Most of the time they in fact are and it’s not so bad, some of the flakey ones — like this guy sounds like — back down and ‘don’t go there’.

But also in your post and the quote I provided from it, it doesn’t sound like what he said was actually bad. Clearly the Dr. is confusing ‘life expectancy’ with ‘survival chance’ with treatment, but it seems honest enough type of mistake a ‘straight shooter’ might make.

Unless of course you were just being polite and didn’t quote him exactly.

[lavaroise]

That bastard would not say that of people with AIDS who keep injecting and spreading, would he?

Cowards.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Isn’t that what Rick Santorum’s child has?

[tanknetter]

We need the name of the doctor who said this.

It needs to be made public.

[JoeFromSidney]

My wife's sister has one of these genetic "syndromes." She's been institutionalized since she was a child, and has the mental age of a pre-schooler. She wasn't supposed to live past age 12. She's now over 50. My wife drives back to Canada regularly to visit her. She'll probably outlive us.