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They simply want the child out of the hospital and into private care. The EU says nope.  And the US and the UK are nowhere near the same on legal terms. We have a lot more choice. The bolded? No, they really can't. [b]It's been done but illegally and the courts invariably rule in the favor of the parents.[/b]  I've warned my mother about the growing trend of well to do seniors going to the hospital with X problem and some social worker swoops in and places them in nursing homes and gains control over their finances. Family ends up having to get a lawyer involved but often times, a lot of the money is then gone. [/quote]

No, the courts do not. There are cases of cancer treatment, blood transfusion for Jehovah's Witness family children who would die otherwise, etc, and care is turned back over the parents when the child has received lifesaving treatment.

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Incredibly judgey, aren't we? Why so defensive? Drug companies give away drugs for free all the time to those in need. [b]And yes, they can agree to give it to the parents for the doc to use in-hospital.[/b] Insurance would have paid for it outside of an inpatient setting, as you said, so clearly it's doable. The British parents raised 1.8 million through charitable means. Your friends can do same.[/quote]

No, they do not. You really have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I don't even think you know that you are just making stuff up at this point.

No drug company will "just give it to the parents" if it is a prescription medication. A) There must be a prescription written by a physician first, and there is no involved physician licensed there to give it who is willing to prescribe it, and B) Pharmaceutical companies are not dispenseries -- they are not licensed to dispense prescription medications, and they do not want to. Too much liability. Prescription medications are dispensed through pharmacies, thus the need for a prescription.

I know this because I write those prescriptions. It is an involved process. I have to write the justification letter/form, which goes to the drug company, which sends me a voucher for the family to pick up with the prescription, which the family takes to the pharmacy, from which they are dispensed the medication.

Pharmacists aren't magically not involved just because the drug company waives the fee. Prescription meds are still controlled and require a system of checks to ensure safety and legitimacy.

You really don't get it, and you don't understand that you do not get it. I don't know how to help you with that.

[quote]Why should there be courts and lawyers? You simply sign a form waiving the hospital/doctors of liability. [/quote]

I also do not understand why you do not get that "waiving liability" is not all that is involved in the care of children. You can't do whatever you want to them, so long as you "waive liability" for other adults. [/quote]

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