Posted on 10/17/2019 3:26:08 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: U of Michigan “just killed my son,” mother says. Hospital yanks life support hours after judge dismisses case
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 16, 2019 – Bobby Reyes, a 14-year-old boy from Michigan who doctors declared “brain dead,” died yesterday after a judge dismissed his family’s court case asking he be given more time. The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital removed his ventilator just hours later. The case was heard at 10:00 a.m. and by 3:00 p.m. the hospital had released a statement declaring Bobby to be dead.
Bobby suffered a cardiac arrest on September 21 after experiencing an asthma attack and was airlifted to the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Doctors at the hospital diagnosed Bobby as being “brain dead” and within a week of that diagnosis informed his family that his ventilator would be removed, bringing an end to his life.
Bobby’s family brought the case to court to seek more time to arrange a transfer for their son.
But that request was denied by Judge David Swartz of the Washtenaw County Circuit Court yesterday morning, and the medical staff at the University of Michigan hospital disconnected Bobby’s ventilator just hours later.
The decision to remove Bobby’s ventilator was made after a second brain death examination was made Monday which pronounced him dead. But Bobby’s family has continually pointed out that the hospital has admitted that there has been improvement in Bobby’s condition and that it is only possible for a living person to get better.
They have claimed that other doctors believed there was hope for Bobby, including Richard P. Bonfiglio. Bonfiglio is himself a graduate of the University of Michigan’s medical school and attended the court hearing yesterday.
He told the Detroit Free Press that he had reviewed Bobby’s charts and visited him in the hospital, although he did not conduct a formal examination because he lacks admitting privileges at the hospital.
When asked if he had seen reasons for the family to hope, he said, “Absolutely, yes. The problem is the whole determination of brain death is not a precise science at this point, so when you’re dealing with this kind of situation, I would rather err on the side of giving him a chance than on terminating things.”
Earlier Monday Bobby’s mother, Sarah Jones, released a statement on the Facebook group “Save Bobby.”
“The University of Michigan just killed my son,” she said. “Our lawyer Bill had papers at the courthouse in his hand that could have saved him but they rushed this whole thing so fast. Bobby is gone and I feel numb we tried so hard to save him I let my boy down. My heart is [broken] we were so close to finding him a place they couldn’t give us no time monsters and murderers.”
LifeSiteNews wishes to extend our deepest sympathies to all of Bobby’s family and friends and will bring you further coverage of this tragic story in the coming days.
I agree.
Denial and dismissal for lack of standing are not the same. Hood catch.
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Good catch. Wish FR had a edit function.
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I believe we should be able to sell our organs and not only donate them.
... I believe we should be able to sell our organs and not only donate them
Well, if you are alive, selling a kidney, skin, or part of a liver would be useful
If yer dead, well, you don’t own them, so you cant sell them.
you got a personal stake in this buddy?
You said:The hospital cannot and will not take organs unless the parents/guardians give them the ok to do so. Such misinformation is unjust to the people who need them . Been there done that.
But they can and do declare people prematurely brain dead IN SPITE OF OBJECTIONS OF PARENTS OR FAMILY WITH LEGAL HEALTH CARE POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Make sure your loved ones take off the organ donor on driver’s license. It trumps even legal decision members in some states.
Why didn’t they take him elsewhere? This shit happens every day.
This thread is full of idiotic comments.
No one wants your dried up, stinky smelling unused organs.
I hope no one you know needs one.
Except you realize that they are using genetic markers to customize chemotherapy to the individual, right? Solves lung cancer with almost no side effects.
Try reading something new before expressing bullshit, ignorant opinions.
Yea you would have a cardiac arrest if your oxygen was cut off!
The people who make these decisions all have addresses. I’m just saying.
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What does that tell you? The hospital turns into a long term care facility? You realize after the declaration, the hospital gets zero reimbursement? And you realize that some person who can live should be in that ICU bed. How would you like your wife or husband die because they needed the respirator this corpse was using.
Ignorant posts actually reinforce people’s opinion to avoid organ donation. And trust me, if you ever spent time working in an ICU, you would know the staff will not rush to harvest anything. You make these people out to be ghouls.
You should be ashamed of your ignorance.
It’s not true. That would get any medical practitioner jailed. In addition, the funeral director would know if they were donors, and would be obligated to report “missing parts.”
Your internet rumor stuff sounds like a Halloween story.
Shame on you for spreading it.
That is just stupid.
... But they can and do declare people prematurely brain dead IN SPITE OF OBJECTIONS OF PARENTS OR FAMILY WITH LEGAL HEALTH CARE POWER OF ATTORNEY.
In most states, in cases of death under mechanical means of support, if 2 doctors say you are dead, you are dead. The POA has no standing in this regard.
Yeah, and abortionists don't rush to sell aborted baby parts either. That would be ghoulish.
What does that tell you? The hospital turns into a long term care facility? You realize after the declaration, the hospital gets zero reimbursement? And you realize that some person who can live should be in that ICU bed. How would you like your wife or husband die because they needed the respirator this corpse was using.
Yeah, sure...except for this little fact you failed to either read or acknowledge..
Bobby’s family brought the case to court to seek more time to arrange a transfer for their son.
They just wanted time to move him out of the precious ICU bed so this boy wouldn't take up the space. Apparently there was some disagreement as to whether the boy was actually brain dead. If the hospital doesn't get reimbursed, why make the declaration while there is possible doubt and it's against the parents' wishes?
The problem is mentality like yours who always seem to err on the side of death.
Because everybody knows that every funeral director is pure as the driven snow and couldn't possibly be corrupted by a huge payoff from the sale of human organs.
Do you seriously believe all the Pollyanna bull you're dishing out?
BS opinion on your part. Most of Medicine has yet to become personalized to the point of individualized drugs.
You said:In most states, in cases of death under mechanical means of support, if 2 doctors say you are dead, you are dead.
The POA has no standing in this regard.
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If surrogates want to leave mechanical means operative they have the moral right to do so. The law should reflect that right. Many people have been prematurely and mistakenly declared dead according to your scenario.
The determination of death pursuant to brain death criteria is fraught with mistakes.
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