Doctors & Country forcing parents to kill their baby (Canada)



Just another example of governments / hospitals suffering from a superiority complex.
 
So let me get this right...

The baby is going to die soon regardless of what anyone does.

The parents want to cut open the babies throat and stick a tube down it so the kid can survive a short while longer without the aid of machines.

Parents want to have baby die at home rather than hospital, which is the whole purpose of cutting the baby up and putting it in more pain. To achieve this, they want to make an expensive ambulance ride from Canada to Detroit since the locals doctors refuse to do it.

The parents are selfish arseholes.
 
Baby should only get the surgery if the parents are going to pay for it, not the government.

The visiting thing is retarded though, they should most definitely be able to visit their child alone. I can't find justification for that.
 
Insomniac said:
So let me get this right...

The baby is going to die soon regardless of what anyone does.

The parents want to cut open the babies throat and stick a tube down it so the kid can survive a short while longer without the aid of machines.

Parents want to have baby die at home rather than hospital, which is the whole purpose of cutting the baby up and putting it in more pain. To achieve this, they want to make an expensive ambulance ride from Canada to Detroit since the locals doctors refuse to do it.

The parents are selfish arseholes.
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I really don't think you get it. They might be trying to over due it, but that's their right as a parent.

Let's put it this way, your son/daughter is gonna die in less than a week but can have an operation that's very costly but will allow him to live about another year, max, and is very risky and may not even work. But either way he/she's gonna die so the gov./hospital decides they're not going to give him/her that operation because he/she's just gonna die anyway, so why waste all that money? You wouldn't try to fight that to get that extra year for your child? You're right, the parents are selfish assholes and should just let their child die in the hospital, regardless of how old the baby is and what he/she can even understand yet. I mean, it's only their kid, so who cares, right?

I agree, however, that the parents should pay for it all and not waste the governments money, but what parent wouldn't try to fight that?
 
brokemofo said:
I really don't think you get it. They might be trying to over due it, but that's their right as a parent.

Let's put it this way, your son/daughter is gonna die in less than a week but can have an operation that's very costly but will allow him to live about another year, max, and is very risky and may not even work. But either way he/she's gonna die so the gov./hospital decides they're not going to give him/her that operation because he/she's just gonna die anyway, so why waste all that money? You wouldn't try to fight that to get that extra year for your child? You're right, the parents are selfish assholes and should just let their child die in the hospital, regardless of how old the baby is and what he/she can even understand yet. I mean, it's only their kid, so who cares, right?
I agree, however, that the parents should pay for it all and not waste the governments money, but what parent wouldn't try to fight that?
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I could see that on an older child, but only 13 months old? Come on..
 
If anyone followed this story from the beginning (instead of reading a few hundred word article) you'd be disgusted by the parents actions.

Basically the child's doctors refuse to do this procedure on the child because it will be incredibly painful and possibly result in death during the operation since he/she is so fragile to begin with. AND on top of that she/he would die within days if this was done according to the doctor's opinions.

This has nothing to do with money. It has everything to do with the morals these doctors have. If the parents want to send the child to Detroit they can pay for him/her to be transported, but the government of Canada have, and never will, pay for the travel of anyone to go to the US for medical treatment. Not only is it incredibly outrageous to expect the tax payer to pay for transportation to a different country for medical treatment I have no doubt at all it infringes on many, many medical laws that govern paramedics and doctors.

Ultimately it's the parents choice unless they fail to make a decision otherwise. Which they have and thus a court-order was granted. While my grandmother was dying of cancer and there was a chemotherapy wait-list of a week and a half I looked into moving her down to the states and getting treatment immediately which you can do. Same could have happened to this child, but the parents failed to act. I don't want to be critical of parents who are going through, no doubt, a tremendously painful time but the father seems to probably not be all there from the interviews I've seen and it was his failure to properly utilize the medical system, not the medical systems fault.

This is why Canada needs a private + public system. Don't like the way the public system is operated, then pay for what you deem necessary instead of having to go to the states, etc.
 
Am I the only one seeing this as an obvious pro private healthcare (pro-republican) effort from Fox? Elections next year, and people are just starting to talk about them, no wonder they're promoting this story so much....
 
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brokemofo said:
I really don't think you get it. They might be trying to over due it, but that's their right as a parent.

Let's put it this way, your son/daughter is gonna die in less than a week but can have an operation that's very costly but will allow him to live about another year, max, and is very risky and may not even work.
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What is said below.

FTC-Hater said:
Basically the child's doctors refuse to do this procedure on the child because it will be incredibly painful and possibly result in death during the operation since he/she is so fragile to begin with. AND on top of that she/he would die within days if this was done according to the doctor's opinions.
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I stand by my opinion that the parents are selfish assholes.
 
Insomniac said:
What is said below.



I stand by my opinion that the parents are selfish assholes.
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They have a right to be selfish about their child. NO parent wants to see their child die before them. It's hard, maybe one day you'll understand why.
 
Mr Jacksonian said:
I could see that on an older child, but only 13 months old? Come on..
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Ya, just 13-months, that's barely a human, no way the parents could love that thing.... As has already been said, you obviously don't have kids.

I think if the baby was in the US, it would have already had the surgery the parents are requesting, and the baby would be at home with his family...at least that's what a doc on TV said. Oh, and I heard that a hospital in Michigan is perhaps agreeing to take the baby if the Canadian govt will allow.

CANADA SUCKS!
 
There are lots of posts where seo guys or designers laugh at stupid clients. What makes you think that you can tell a doctor what to do and know better than a doctor?

It seems that the kid is in a respirator. How would a tracheostomy help? They still couldnt take him home safely without a respirator and surgery would just make him even weaker.

Besides, the kid is in a vegetative state so all the bullshit about letting the kid die in peace is just bs. Its the parents that wants to feel a little better, which is understandable, but the hospitals primary goal should be to take care of the patients health, not the emotions of the family.
 
They should just unplug all the expensive shit and stop the care and hand the baby over if thats what the parents want

If they want surgery and expensive machines / rides they can pay for it or learn to do it them fucking selves.
 
I don't see how anyone could side with the parents in their decision to prolong suffering of an already doomed child.

The comfort of being at home during death (even though the baby would have no clue what "home" is) is far outweighed by the compassionate death that would occur with adequate pain management at the hospital.
 
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