They should find some really good lawyers.
Can’t you just feel the compassion?
I was once in a similar situation. Paralyzied due to hospital error, on a ventilator and the hospital wanted my parents to turn it off so they can take my organs.
Glad they have a lawyer. So very sad.
What was it that Ronald Reagan said about a nation that ceases to be good will soon cease to great? Or something like that.
Prayers for Jahi’s soul and for the family as well. Gut-wrenching.
What a nightmare. Tonsil removal.
When I was a kid ,during WWII, there was a hospital bed shortage and tonsils would be removed on the kitchen table.
Prayers for this child.
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The very LEAST this hospital should do is give the family reassurance the girl stays alive through the end of the year. This hospital turning this into a war at Christmastime is horrible.
Yes she may very well be dead, dead, dead.
For christ’s sake can you not let the parents have a few days with their daughter?
You nitwits killed her, and like total ghouls you want to harvest her organs and can’t let her parents have Christmas with her.
Disgusting.
The ACA is going to be a horrific scourge on our healthcare system; but it hasn’t started yet. It only actually kicks in on January 1st. The only reason these parents have *any* say in keeping the daughter on life support is that there are private entities involved here. Once people have ACA insurance; the Independent Advisory Board. (Death Panel) will make the decision to pull the plug. The parents won’t have any say in the decision.
“They said, ‘What don’t you understand?’ She is dead, dead, dead,’”
Back in the 90's we had "going postal." Wait till the ACA sets in for realsies and people start going "medical."
I think that is probably excessive. My works for a hospital. They don’t cover this stuff up. The reporting and investigation is far beyond what any police department would do.
I can appreciate them wanting to wait until after Christmas. But autonomous nervous reactions (to touch, sound,etc) are not signs of life. This little girl is not going to wake up.
I pray for the family and the surgeons and the staff. They are not cold machines. They feel these accidental deaths more than you can imagine—and not just because of the legal impact.
I find it completely unbelievable that they are still doing tonsillectomies!
It has been known to be without legitimate purpose for half a century. Ruthless murderers.
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Coincidentally, I saw a local news report on this right before reading this thread.
Hospital said she was brain dead. That the family doesn’t understand that when the brain stops functioning, it doesn’t come back. That’s what they said.
I saw a photo of the 13 year old girl. She was quite obese and looked much much older than 13.
I figure there were underlying health problems associated with the initial sleep apnea they were trying to treat and with the reaction to the surgery which was not good.
While that's distinctly possible it's by no means certain.There's no such thing as a medical or surgical treatment or procedure that's completely safe 100% of the time.And that's true even at the finest hospitals in the world.
Now they are trying to euthanize her to cover it up. Welcome to ACA.
Although I'm not familiar with every single line of the OsamaObamaCare bill my 20 years experience at a major Harvard teaching hospital suggests to me that they're more likely to be trying to avoid a long,drawn out court battle that could cost them millions in uncompensated care than it is that they're trying to cover something up.The hospital and the physicians/surgeons involved in this kid's care are gonna be sued bigtime regardless of how long the kid's on a respirator.
I’d have broken that doctor’s neck, neck, neck.
she had sleep apnea...at that age she was probably profoundly overweight and has done a great deal of damage to her heart already....
thru the best practice of any doctor or hospital, not every one is going to make it....
its ultimately up to the family to decide....
I had my tonsils removed at a VA hospital when I was 22 years old. I came very close to bleeding to death. A nurse in the recovery room had a very panicked look on her face and I could hear her on the intercom practically begging doctors to come work on me. Having tonsils removed is not as simple as people think.
similar situation happened to my uncle a few years ago; former marathon runner and staunch conservative who went in to have his carotid artery cleaned out...he came through the procedure with minor issues and had mapped out his upcoming schedule after the surgery....
the night nurse never checked his oxygen level and the combination of surgery in the throat, swelling in the area, some minor bleeding and not getting enough oxygen caused him to suffocate....despite the fact he had a DNR the hospital resuscitated him after ten minutes and he was brain dead...
the hospital bent over backward for my aunt’s every wish and eventually (5 days later) he was taken off of life support when my aunt and cousins decided the time was right....
this was around 2006....