Interim Death Panel Chairwoman Overruled...
- Thread starter Boca
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Figures. A republican appointee now feels he is qualified to make medical decisions related to transplants. So if the person currently sitting at #1 on the transplant list dies because the lungs went to the 10 year old, does that then make the judge your new member of the death panel? How about if the 10 year old rejects the adult lungs?
Going for glib. Good call.
What we do know is that the right seems to be okie dokie ain't that grand with this activist judge...and that if this little girl gets an adult young, an adult then dies. The poor girl has a disease that will not be cured by this new lung.
Boca
Governor
So...you're a doctor too...or just a hack? You're obviously not interested in EVEN the chance of saving a young girl's life.
And it's just such pissants that shriek and chant about the Republican " War on Women"?
Neither. But get real. The little girl has a disease that new lungs will not cure. You get that, right? Transplant organs are in short supply. You understand that, correct? Another person will die for want of that lung. You understand that, don't you?
The right bitches and moans about activist judges...but here, you support one. Tell me why this girl gets a waiver when thousands of people await transplants?
Boca
Governor
So you are a doctor? My apologies.
She will actually not suffer from cystic fibrosis if both lungs are transplanted. She will suffer from a host of other problems related to taking the anti-rejection drugs and the eventual need to replace the transplanted lungs. My wife's doctor told us "you are trading one disease for another". At the time we had listened to "My So Called Lungs", the story of a young woman who went through a double lung transplant at the age of 21. She died a year later having contracted diabetes and losing her sight.
No, he's a republican judge....
"But the ruling immediately raises concerns about fairness -- and the risk of more lawsuits, said Art Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. While it's admirable that Baylson chose to try to help Sarah and others, the decision threatens the integrity of the nation's existing organ allocation process, he said.
"It is not clear why everyone now waiting at the bottom of any transplant list would not seek relief in federal court," Caplan said. "Unless the judge has reason to think the lung distribution rules are simply a product of age discrimination and nothing more -- which seems highly unlikely -- then this becomes a troubling instance of non-doctors deciding who is the best candidate to receive a lung or other scarce medical resource." ---NBC
that's the government (court) coming between the patient and doctor.....something you dipshits usually screech about. and judges practicing medicine without a license? you love that, too, don't you?
The more I read about cystic fibrosis, the worse it sounds. Sometimes the pancreas and liver are transplanted at the same time as the disease is in those organs as well.
It doesn't appear to have a cure, but lifespans of those afflicted have increased dramatically in the last 50 years from 6 months to upwards of 40+ years.
Boca
Governor
Who? Craig?
For a very short time my wife was the oldest living cystic fibrosis patient in Colorado...it was a sobering moment.
A miniscule consolation. My sympathies. Life sucks sometimes. One of my nephews lost his wife at 28 to skin cancer. I can't imagine.
Problem is the girl is white. No self-disrespecting Liberal can ever appear to want fair treatment for a white girl. The girl's parents should have converted to Islam before applying for the transplant.
Yeah, because the rule related to being 12 or older to get adult organs doesn't apply to non-Christians....
Wahbooz
Governor
But things like that don't matter to the loons on the right. they just want something to bitch about.
