Saturday, January 4, 2014

Seriously?

From the San Fran Chronicle:  Children's Hospital Oakland reached an agreement with the family of Jahi McMath on Friday that will allow a critical care team to enter the hospital to move the girl to an unspecified facility.
The agreement, described in the Oakland courtroom of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo, is the latest development in an unusual battle between the hospital and the girl's family, who have rejected declarations that Jahi is dead as a result of brain death.
On Friday, the Alameda County coroner issued a death certificate stating that Jahi died on Dec. 12, three days after doctors at Children's Hospital performed a tonsillectomy that led to complications.  http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Hospital-agrees-to-let-Jahi-McMath-family-take-5111584.php
OK, but then there's this:
Grillo refused the family's request to require doctors from the hospital or an outside physician to insert a feeding tube and a tracheostomy tube in Jahi, which the family had argued was necessary for her to be transferred.
Hospital attorney Douglas Straus told the judge the hospital would not allow any doctor to perform procedures on a deceased human being.
Really?  You don't do autopsies?
You don't study bodies after they have died?
Medical students don't use dead bodies in their training?
Mind you, I think the hospital is in the right, for the most part, but their arguments are rather stupid and childish.

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