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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you are comfortable allowing government to make decisions for you even if you can afford to go private?[/quote]

Your re-phrasing the issue and fake outrage make me want to puke.[/quote]

No, that's the way it is.
Parents loose all the rights to make decisions as soon as baby is admitted to the hospital. [b]Doctors will decide his faith.[/b]

Personally, I think if the baby is terminally I'll, but if he was any other color than white, PC would play in his favor and he would get transported to the US.[/quote]

Uh ... you mean "fate," right?

Are you under the impression that physicians can override a parent's decisions about their child's treatment without going through a legal process, first? Like, that they just get to do it on a whim, without having to justify it in court?[/quote]

Again, this is dangerous territory but not surprised liberals don't get it
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I am a liberal and a lawyer, and this is what I get -- both the US and the UK have legal systems in which a doctor or hospital who disagrees with a parent's medical choices for a child can ask the court to step in and make a judgment as to what is in the best interests of the child.  These cases are not uncommon.  Doctors have an ethical duty of care to their patients.  Parents have a legal and blood yie of responsibility.  Both parent's and doctor's decisions can sometimes become skewed by other interests.  Parents, understandably, fall victim to last ditch scam treatments.  Doctors or hospitals may feel omniscient or have skewed financial interests, either to incur more cost or to stop costs.  I prefer, at least, to have a legal system which can dispationately examine these cases, rather than always defering to the parents in cases of disagreement.

I'm thinking of cases where parents have Munchausen by proxy or refuse treatment for child due to religious beliefs, wacky holistic treatment beliefs, etc.  The downside is that doctors and the courts can also be wrong.

Honestly, I have a very different ethical take on this, which is that decisions about care for a vegetative patient are often about helping the family come to terms with letting go.  It may have been a legally correct move for the hospital to go to the courts, but it wasn't wise.  The hospital would have done better to work with the parents and find an exceptional solution to such exceptional circumstances.[/quote]

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