Why are judges involved in this kind of thing? If the family wanted the kid moved and can pay for it, why is the judiciary involved, besides the fact that they feel they have to stick their noses and two cents into every aspect of our lives like they’re gods or something?
Someone who could pay needed the kids organs.
“Why are judges involved in this kind of thing? If the family wanted the kid moved and can pay for it, why is the judiciary involved, besides the fact that they feel they have to stick their noses and two cents into every aspect of our lives like they’re gods or something?”
What a stupid post. He was involved because the family filed suit.
Besides, they couldn’t find another facility.
Yep, the family had 3 weeks to do a “discharge against physician’s advice”....but didn’t. Probably a lack of money thing...private ICU/ventilator cost would be high.
Unless the parents were millionaires they couldn’t pay for him to stay in an acute care hospital for more than a month. Two doctors had to sign off on the decision. He had two two flat EEG’s and other tests. The doctors didn’t kill him, acute hypoxic brain injury secondary to asthma did. This is so sad, yet brain dead people do not live long even with acute care. He could have been transferred to a skilled nursing facility where he would have died in a few months at best. As I heard a neurosurgeon once say “we played God when we put him on a ventilator”. There’s nothing to see here folks except grief and sadness.