Doctors vs parents, science vs faith, what to do with a dead patient? (cost, support)
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Transporting a person in a hospital bed is expensive. Who's paying for her to be transporting from the hospital to an airport and flown across the country (that's expensive) to this facility.
Who's going to pay for her to be at this facility for however long?
Most people don't consider living in a persistent vegetative state, dependent on machines for breath and nutrition, with no brain activity and no hope of recovery "life". If the religious right does, yet want to deny social services to the children of a mother on welfare, one has to question just how committed they are to life.
The children of that mother are living, breathing, get hungry, need an education and safe, secure housing. Let us know when all the people who think Teri Schiavo was denied the right to life start caring about the lives of innocent kids trapped in poverty.
Actually,a person in a PVS state is still living.
They have blood flow to the brain,and wave activity on an EEG.
They breathe on their own,and most times don't need a vent. Most need a feeding tube.
I am seriously bothered thay some posters think she is on Medicaid.
THAT is the most disturbing thing I've read on here.
Where do they get these facts?
I answered this yesterday. For me, I was going on the report I heard on the radio. That was my only reason. For others I do not know. If the radio discussion was wrong, they are the ones to blame, not those of us who have said that. I understand why you might be upset, but don't jump down our throats. I guess this is a lesson on not believing everything we hear, whether she is or she isn't...I will add, that works both ways, none of us should take everything we hear as the gospel truth. Wouldn't you agree?
Who should pay to this to keep a brain dead girl on life support?
An outside medical team will move 13-year-old Jahi McMath from Children's Hospital Oakland and her mother will take full responsibility for her body during the transfer to another facility.
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The family has until 5 p.m. Tuesday to transfer Jahi's body or the hospital can disconnect her life support because a court-ordered injunction will expire.
The medical costs for this will be astronomical! My question: who should pay to keep a brain dead patient from decomposing, government, insurance, the family?
No matter your stance on the case are you bothered by the fact a judge is overriding medical professionals, including professionals appointed by the court? It truly scares me that the court has now twice in this case overridden medical professionals. Thoughts.....
If that girl who was diagnosed as brain dead is considered alive, transplant organ procurement teams have a lot of explaining to do! They evidently have been taking organs for transplant from "alive" patients.
Time for the great Obama to raise the girl from the dead.
Maybe the GOP will quickly hold a session to try that as they did with the Terry Schiavo case.
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Who should pay to this to keep a brain dead girl on life support?
