Posted on 10/16/2017 4:42:06 PM PDT by sparklite2
The organ transplant of a 2-year-old boy who was born without a kidney will likely be stalled for months.
The reason? His father’s latest arrest.
In a letter The AJC obtained from Burgess, a hospital official said the surgery would be pushed back until Dickerson could provide evidence he has complied with his parole officer for three months.
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this doesn’t compute
if the baby needs the transplant, the hospital and parole people have NO BUSINESS delaying or getting in the way!
if that child dies, these folks need to be Prosecuted, based on the limited facts I can gather from the report anyway
Guessing fathers “drug” habit is keeping him from donating the kidney ..... guessing.
This has nothing to do about Dad and everything about the son who needs this operation. Id sue them for everything they got!
I agree. Plus if he continues to live the criminal lifestyle and demonstrates he can’t follow policies and laws, he’s probably more likely to get a wound infection or even sabotage his wound just to sue somebody.
Sad situation.
And one important requirement for any organ transplant is a stable social situation. Even if the dad is not involved in day to day care, he is contributing to an unstable situation for the boy.
Like someone else said, maybe he’s decided he wants to hang on to both kidneys after all.
I would expect the public charity hospital, Grady, to get most of the criminal business, not the private Methodist hospital.
“The sins of the father are being visited upon his son.”
uhm, the original sin, uhm
On a secular note, the sins of the father is a very real and a natural thing. Think about a son being raised by a drug addict thug criminal. Now thing about another son being raised by a well adjusted and educated taxpaying member of the society.
What are the chances of the completely innocent son of the criminal making it versus the other son who has a much more wholesome parental guidance. What you do and how you live your life will have direct impact on your children. A simple fact.
I expect you are right. But this thread is really smoking out the do-gooder socialists.
The hospital said when they needed him there for pre- surgery bloodwork, and the neighboring county didn’t bring him that day.
“if that child dies, these folks need to be Prosecuted, “
Uh, the drug addict won’t be able to donate his kidneys because he did not take responsibility of his own kid’s wellbeing. Sucks for the guy, but kidney transplant is NOT a constitutional right. You must match and have to follow A LOT of procedure, both medical and legal. Good luck to the kid. Hopefully he finds another donor. But that dad should be ashamed of himself. Lowlifes are probably thinking about getting rich after suing the hospital, however.
I’m thinking of the child. Not the dad
This is nuts. A judge should have the father go to the hospital to donate and recover, then handle whatever probation issue. He won’t be going anywhere for a while after having a kidney removed.
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If the father is a drug user then the kidney would not be able be transplanted, as i understand it. There could be disease as well that is yet undetected.
Probation and parole are two different things. One department in GA though.
“this thread is really smoking out the do-gooder socialists.”
But they fweel awwfool!! waah waah why can’t the evil hospital just perform the surgery? waah waah
I agree wit ya 100% on that !
I don't like to reveal too much about myself on the web but I'll make an exception:
If Atlanta is anything like Boston (where I worked) Grady almost certainly got some,if not many,prisoners as patients.That was certainly the case in Boston...Boston City Hospital (renamed "Boston Medical Center" some years ago) certainly got prisoners as patients,particularly from the Suffolk County lockup...only a couple of miles away.But,as I noted,my hospital...a very "private" one...also received such prisoners,including from Walpole State Prison (AKA: "Cedar Junction"),the home of the state's nastiest criminals.
It seems to me that the location of the state's large prisons could be a factor.Walpole State Prison is located within easy commuting distance of Boston.Georgia is a much bigger state so the same might not be true there.
But one thing I can guarantee is that regardless of distances involved hospitals like Emory would,at the very least,have an agreement with the Georgia Department of Corrections to provide care for the sickest,most "complicated",patients.
“If the father is a drug user then the kidney would not be able be transplanted, as i understand it.”
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Did I miss a mention of drug use by the father in the article?
The hospital has already done some work on him to determine that he is a match and the surgery would pose no life threatening problem to him. That’s SOP, you don’t meet those standards, they won’t even consider you.
e.g. Since I have high blood pressure, I couldn’t donate a kidney to a friend when she needed one - even if I matched perfectly.
Nothing in the story indicates drug use.If that was the issue the hospital's statement would have said something like "medical issues that have come to light make this procedure unwise at this time".
And as for the "do gooder socialists" you refer to I assume that includes me.And to that I say "ten bucks says that you don't have the first clue what hospitals are about or about the relationship that many hospitals have with prisons/prisoners/parolees".
“I’m thinking of the child. Not the dad”
You’re thinking about jailing the doctors/nurses/hospital workers.
You said, “if that child dies, these folks need to be Prosecuted”
You are really after them, at least it looks like that.
I was giving an example of BAD parenting. The guy could be a drug addict, a thug, a criminal, or all of the above. Does not matter. He could have helped his child. He could not. The blame is ENTIRELY on him, not the hospital or the doctors. My point.
How they all wish socialist tyranny upon the world when it suits their fweeelings. Triggered!
If they kill that child, yes
Ill put $10 down that he was caught using drugs and it broke surgical protocol. Seriously. If his arrest on parole violations in no way involved drugs then i will send you $10.
People who think that the jail and the father are being blocked by the hospital from permitting the operation JUST because he is in custody are ignorant of how this all works.
It is simple to get the dad out for medical reasons on a parole warrant either under gaurd, or not, if its an medical emergency. All it takes is a couple of phone calls for approval. And a kid needing a kidney is a medical emergency.
It seems obvious that He used drugs since his medical prescreening and simultaneously violated parole and surgical guidelines. Thats why they are giving him three months to clean up and try again.
“If they kill that child, yes”
The “they” is that criminal so-called father. Prosecute him, which sounds like he will be. Kidney transplant, however, is not a constitutional right. Leave the hospital and the doctors to do their trade.
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