Posted on 10/11/2019 2:48:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On May 31, 2002, 18-year-old Brenden Flynn was involved in an auto accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury. He was med-flighted to a hospital in Syracuse, New York.
Shortly thereafter, he was transferred to Park Ridge Hospital near Rochester, where doctors notified his mother, MaryJo Flynn, that Brenden had a zero chance of recovery or having any meaningful “quality of life.” They suggested ending his life.
If Brenden were to survive, his doctors said, he would be in a nursing home for the rest of his life. Brenden’s mother, not wanting to make the decision to end her son’s life so quickly, asked the doctors to continue treating him.
On September 9, 2019, 20-year-old Brandon Fuller was involved in an auto accident and experienced a traumatic brain injury and was med-flighted to Sanford Medical Center, located in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Shortly thereafter, doctors informed his mother, Amanda King, that Brandon was “brain dead” and had a zero chance of recovery or any meaningful “quality of life” and suggested ending his life. Brandon’s mother, not wanting to make the decision to end her son’s life so quickly, asked the doctors to continue treating him.
Brenden Flynn was afforded more time. Today, Brenden is happily married to his wife of ten years, Nicole, and they have four beautiful children.
Brandon Fuller was not afforded more time. His mother’s requests were denied. Today, Brandon Fuller is dead.
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I keep thinking “they should not have discharged that person!!!”
And that costs a lot of lives every year.
Overconfidence bordering on criminality.
Some are GREAT
Some should NEVER have been doctors
My husband may hold the record. In less than 24 hours he was in 3 different hospitals.
He was bucked off a horse, ambulance to closest ER. They got his xrays mixed up with another patient and said he only had 2 cracked ribs...released to go home, given pain pills and told to rest. I tried to talk them out of releasing him, I felt he was injured far worse and his breathing was terrible. So they ordered oxygen to make me happy and released him any way. I took him to another hospital where they said he had flail chest and had him transported to trauma hospital. He not only had multiple broken ribs but one had poked a hole in his lung. He had to have chest tube inserted and ICU for several days. He was a long time healing up.
That first hospital could not wait to get him out of there and we have great insurance, they were just quacks. Our insurance refused to pay them at all because they have some rule that if patient is admitted to another hospital within so many hours of being discharged insurance won’t pay first hospital. I thought it was great. I told them I would sue them if I got a bill.
There is a huge difference between being brain dead and being comatose. Brain dead *is* dead. The article stated that the doctors had determined that Brandon was, in fact, brain dead. The article also says that Brandon’s blood pressure was unstable before his body ceased functioning; this is a consequence of losing brain function.
I once had the task of gathering all of the medical records of a murder victim to turn over to the medical examiner. I remember reading the death report. While the boy (17 years old) was not immediately brain dead, he had severe injury to the brain. The medical staff did everything they could to stabilize his blood pressure, and it would not stabilize. It was amazing just how much the nurses and doctors did to try to save him. But, as I mentioned, his brain was fatally injured. It was, in fact, swelling and protruding from the skull (he had been shot in the head). The doctors pulled the breathing tube after consulting with the mother. As the report said, his respirations ceased within seven short minutes. And then they called me to take him to the morgue. At least he wasn’t alone, since two other patients were already there.
You need to find someone willing to publish your story.
Or a good publicist.
A number of years ago I read about a young man who was declared “brain dead.” I believe they wanted to take his organs.
His dad got another opinion from a different neurologist, who said he was NOT “brain dead.” The young man made a full recovery.
bttt
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