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| Mr. Hurricane:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on July 29, 2017, 06:39:35 PM ---It sounds pretty clearly like the high court and the hospital are to blame, but of course you guys are turning this into an argument about socialism, when socialized healthcare had nothing to do with the kid dying. Similar bullstuff happens in the United States all the time where people are legally barred from receiving experimental treatments for whatever reason. But you aren't going to blame market-based healthcare for that because it contradicts the narrative. Selected cases: -Dude on an employer health plan is denied access to an experimental treatment, even though it was in the later stages of clinical trials https://benefitslink.com/articles/selfinsure010314.html -Little girl with rare cancer gets denied compassionate use of experimental treatments https://www.cnbc.com/2014/08/05/a-case-for-compassionate-use-when-unapproved-drugs-are-the-only-hope.html -Two disabled kids basically handed a death sentence after being denied compassionate use by both drug companies and the FDA https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/07/15/sick-kids-desperate-parents-and-battle-for-experimental-drugs/Hle3CTwriFfTXoOvQ7TbZP/story.html --- End quote --- It reminds me of those cases where a patient is comatose or braindead but a family sues to keep the patient on life support despite the fact it would be agonizing or meaningless respectively. The last case like that I remember was a girl who had a catastrophic accident during surgery and ended up braindead. Her parents sued to keep her on life support though there was no chance of her waking up. |
| SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Mr. Hurricane on July 29, 2017, 06:46:20 PM ---The last case like that I remember was a girl who had a catastrophic accident during surgery and ended up braindead. Her parents sued to keep her on life support though there was no chance of her waking up. --- End quote --- Yep that's Jahi McMath. She received a tonsillectomy and extensive mouth surgery to treat her severe sleep apnea, and then had a major bleeding event which rendered her brain-dead. That's actually a very messy case, which I've read heavily about. For one, the family decided to bring Jahi a cheeseburger after her procedure, even though solid foods were obviously prohibited. But the hospital also didn't properly respond to the fact that Jahi was in an extreme amount of pain afterwards, and they didn't even notice she was bleeding out until way after she went into cardiac arrest. It's further complicated by the fact that a law firm is currently milking the family dry by filming videos of Jahi's random muscle spasms and bolstering their belief that their daughter, who has extensive and irreversible brain-damage confirmed by dozens of experts, actually has a chance of recovery. |
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