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 will have to tell my sister she is being treated with voodoo.
Get some new magazines.
All of all of Bobby’s family and friends need to get organized, get the names of everyone, legal and medical, who participated in this homicide and establish a long-term plan for retribution...
I would agree. Would bless the family we leave behind.
What does that mean? Does it mean people who want to live despite life-threatening injuries, just want their families to suffer?
My husband fought very hard for his life after a massive stroke. He didn’t do that out of a desire to make us suffer. He genuinely wanted to live. Most people do. Even those who have previously stated they wouldn’t want to live with certain disabilities. Brain damage, blindness, paralysis, or any other disability, when it comes right down to it, most people will do whatever it takes to get that last breath. And it’s not because they want their families to suffer. It is human nature to want to live. It isn’t something to be ashamed of.
They tried to, but were denied. He was quickly killed to prevent him being moved to a safe location.
I need a lung, but not bad enough to kill somebody.
Not true.
I can tell you for a fact unless the parents consented to organ donation nothing was harvested.
My daughter would have been dead at the age of eleven if it were not for an organ donor.
You're preaching to the choir, I know this.
I also know (from personal experience...) that long before the plug was actually pulled, organ recipients were lined up and advised to be ready to head to the hospital as soon as the organ harvest began.
That's just how organ donation works. As soon as a viable donor is found, blood match work and other processes are performed and then cross-matched against a nationwide database of people on the organ recipient network so that when the organs are harvested, the recipients are in-hospital and prepped for transplant.
Read post #27 on this topic (by me.)
I know it was the blessing of your life for your daughter to have her life saved by a donor.
Ethically done, donors are gifts from God.
But when donors are declared dead by uncertain criteria, many patients who could have lived are deprived of that chance. Your daughter got every chance to live. Potential donors deserve the same.
“I bet a year ago you’d have argued that FISA court was clean too.”
You would have lost, Sal.
I think you pinged the wrong person.
you got a personal stake in this buddy?
There are no ‘clean’ institutions.
Including the organ donation racket.
“My husband fought very hard for his life after a massive stroke. “
How many times did his brain scan show him dead?
non sequiture
Corruption is universal.
And very sequitur.
Where there is profit to be made, profit will be taken.
nope just read articles and call out asshats anytime i see one. your an asshat.
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