"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Posted on 12/19/2007 5:00:27 AM PST by paulsy
"Paulo Melo, 29, has been in a coma at the Royal Darwin Hospital for two weeks, after severing his spinal cord in a car crash." - read more below: doctor requested, family objected, court granted
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
I think people should have private health insurance.
I also think that if there is a government system, it should be as good as it possibly can be.
And our government health system in Australia is actually pretty good.
I personally doubt this court decision has anything at all to do with public or private health care issues.
For all we know, Mr Melo may have been a private patient.
Some posters in this thread seem to be assuming this case involves public health care.
It might - but it could just as easily involve private health care.
43% of Australians have private health insurance. And this is a case where you'd definitely go private if you could.
I'm sorry. It was almost midnight here when I logged on and found out about this. By then, he'd already been killed.
The decision was made to wean him from the respirator and place him in God’s hands.
Within a few weeks he was awake and began a recovery. Although he never fully recovered, he recovered enough to live out another 8 years of active life. His main trouble was a speech impediment.
2 weeks is too short a time to decide it is hopeless, by the information given in the article.
Prayers for his family and friends.
Tragically, this was to be expected. We learned with Terri that when a court decides that an innocent person needs to die, they will do everything in their power to make sure it happens.
Would you post a white rose please? Is anyone keeping a list?
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
I purpose we’ll eventually have Singer hospitals. We already have Sanger hospitals. They’re called Planned Parenthood.
Do you suppose the patients have any idea what a Darwin hospital is when they check in? Does the hospital have to rely entirely on patients who have no choice?
I purpose = I suppose
Same keystrokes on a phone keypad.
“doctors told the family before turning off the machine that he could only breathe on his own for up to three days.”
How could they possibly know it would be three days.
“Paulo Melo slipped into a coma more than two weeks ago because of head and spinal injuries he suffered in a car crash in Kakadu National Park.
His family fought the hospital’s decision to turn off his ventilator but the Supreme Court agreed with doctors that further treatment was futile.
His life support systems were switched off yesterday afternoon and he died this morning.”
From link in post #85.
They didn’t even give him a CHANCE!!!!
When he was able to breathe on his own for a period of time, they should have put the ventilator back ON!!!!
They shouldn’t have taken the ventilator away from him so soon, anyway, but when they saw he was breathing on his own, it should have been a wake up call for even these thick-headed people.
I personally know of cases where doctors have given no chance to a patient, yet the patient has recovered.
Let's always err on the side of life.
“Let’s always err on the side of life.”
Exactly. What’s the sense of going to a hospital if they don’t even TRY very hard to save your life.
It doesn't have to be an overdose to get the job done.
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"Then for this to happen after they gave him the injection is so devastating and terrible."
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"Opioids are relatively potent agents with narrow therapeutic
ranges and effects on multiple organ systems.
Physicians are trained to exercise care in their use.
Morphine-like opioids characteristically induce
respiratory depression, hypotension, nausea, vomiting,
dizziness, sedation, mental clouding,
dysphoria, pruritus, constipation, increased pressure
in the biliary tract, myoclonus, and urinary retention."
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/13672.html
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ADVERSE REACTIONS THE MAJOR HAZARDS OF
MORPHINE, AS OF OTHER NARCOTIC ANALGESICS, ARE
RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION AND, TO A LESSER DEGREE,
CIRCULATORY DEPRESSION, RESPIRATORY ARREST,
SHOCK, AND CARDIAC ARREST HAVE OCCURRED.
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What do they call that? Self fulfilling prophecy?
Its been only two weeks! you have to be kidding... If it were your kid would 2 weeks be enough?
thats why my will will have something about making sure i dont stay on life support. i dont want to be a vegetable.
I tell my wife to do whats right in her mind, to be prayerful and honest with herself. She tells me the same.
most families only think of themselves and not whats best for the person on life support. but thats understandable, its a hard thing to do.
Lets assume the kid is a turnip... Is it really still 'best' to kill him? how is it best for the kid to have his life support taken away?
“Self fulfilling prophecy?”
It sure sounds like it (and maybe with a little morphine, or something, to help it along).
Isn’t socialized medicine grand. (sarcasm)
Chilling ...
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