I am not sure what they mean about "life support machines". Could it be food they were giving? Or water? But these days, killing or murder are not harmful, if a judge gives permission. Maybe doctors will get licenses to kill, like James Bond.
In this case grandma was denied the joys and euphoria promised by the Felos fellows and just had to lay there and live, darn it.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Did doctors resuscitate 92-year-old Madeline Neumann against her wishes, or did they perform life-saving treatment after she was found unconscious at a nursing home in October 1995?
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Attorney Marnie Poncy, who represents Neumann's estate and filed the suit against the Morse Geriatric Center and Dr. Jaimy Bensimon, told the jury that the doctor broke the Hippocratic Oath — the tenet that all certified physicians are bound to keep.
"The first principle of that oath is, above all, 'Do no harm,' and this case is about the violation of that oath," Poncy said.
Poncy said Bensimon and the nursing home trampled over Neumann's wish that she avoid a painful death like those she watched her husband and two daughters suffer as a result of cancer.
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Studley said a close reading of the living will and advance directives will show that all of the grandmother's desires were only to be followed if she had a terminal condition — and no known treatment could bring her back to her normal state.
"No one during her entire admission said that she was terminal," Studley said.
She told jurors Neumann also included language in both documents that stated antibiotics should be administered if she were found unresponsive.
Plaintiffs: Grandmother was kept alive for six days, despite her wish for peaceful death
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BB I should have pinged you since I quoted you wantonly in the post above.
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Nice melodrama, but doctors have long since abandoned the Hippocratic Oath. It was never legally binding anyway.
Actually, she had a peaceful death. This lawsuit is really about a greedy heir and trial lawyers on steroids.