Posted on 02/14/2015 6:30:48 PM PST by NRx
Doctors believe that a terminally-ill teenager who has a brain tumour will die within weeks after a judge gave them permission to withhold treatment.
The 18-year-old man’s parents wanted chemotherapy to continue and his mother had launched a “passionate” fight “for his life” at a fraught late-night hearing at the Court of Protection in London.
She said her son was “absolutely adored” and a “miracle child” and urged judge Mrs Justice Hogg not to rule that he “has to die”.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Absolutely gut wrenching. This is where things ill logically end up here. Call it a preview of coming attractions.
Prayers for this family.
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Off the judge. He has outlived his usefulness .
A few judicial decisions, and then nothing but individual bureaucratic decisions.
Some animals are more equal than others.
So death is in the teenager's best interest?
And they talked up the NHS as an example of what CommieCare would be!!!!
If you read the article, the patient cannot really move, is not fully sentient and cannot make decisions for himself. He is irreparably brain-damaged and dying.
The hospital workers must feel like they are torturing a caged animal.
Mom and Dad have been fighting for years for this kid, and cannot stop their fighting even when it is for the best.
In all fairness, doctors have been doing this longer than any of us have lived. It happens at a point when doctors admit to themselves that they are powerless to stop the inevitable.
Family members and especially parents may want extraordinary measures to be taken, but it is truly malpractice to carry out surgery or prescribe treatment that is painful, dehumanizing and meaningless.
A good example is a surgeon who cuts into a patient only to find that they have advanced, metastatic cancer. So they discontinue the surgery and close the wound. If a doctor is a person of faith, they would typically say that the patient “is in God’s hands, now.”
The real anguish happens when we try to cling to life when it is time to die, for others or ourselves. Life is not ours to give or take away, nor to cling to when it is over.
Life is like that, so annoying for the staff.
Thank God we're finally getting to a time where laws will mandate that staff annoyance assessment comes before a family's fight for their child's life.
I mean, is just a matter of obvious, simple resource allocation. I for one can't understand why people don't show a little respect for optimum systems throughout.
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Judge Hogg. It sounds like it’s straight out of the pages of Atlas Shrugged with names like Wesley Mooch.
She had to kill him to save him.
I agree that some decisions are about resource allocation, and I am not in support of that.
However sometimes it is just futile care, futile torture. I have watched locked in stroke patients be lab rats for medical students. I have watched dying systems failing patients be lab rats for just one more torturous procedure or medication. Horrific.
Death panels. Coming soon to an Obamanation near you,
She had to kill him to save him.
No she stopped futile most likely torturous treatments and brought the inevitable a little closer.
Judge J. Hogg,sounds like a character from “Dukea of Hazrd”.
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My aunt was terminal. They still insisted on operating one more time. 40 stitches and nothing but pain for her and the family. She died two weeks after the surgery. I swear they do it just for the money.
I was aware of a stage four mediastinal cancer who had bone metzs who was dragged in for a double hip replacement because of two broken femurs secondary to the cancer. He thought he must be getting better because well... he was being given hip replacement! died two weeks later.
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