Ronald Bailey
I somehow missed the culture war moment last month when it was reported that Baylor Regional Medical Center in Plano, Texas, disconnected a dying, uninsured cancer patient, Tirhas Habtegiris, from the ventilator that was keeping her alive. The 27-year-old abdominal cancer patient was conscious and did not wish to be disconnected because she hoped that her mother would arrive from Africa for one last visit before she died. The hospital warned the patient and her family that it would keep her on the ventilator for just 10 more days. Ms. Habtegiris died 16 minutes after the ventilator was shut off on December 14, 2005.
It is a turnabout.
Pulling the Plug on Unwilling Patients
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I missed the case of Tirhas Habtegiris until you pointed it out. Ronald Bailey makes the incorrect asssumption that right-wingers didn't care, if I am but one example. This culture of death is every where.
I don't have insurance. I don't have any money, either. Guess I'm up shit creek....