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April 30, 2005
Another Texas Hospital Plans To Stop Treating Critically Ill Baby
Topics: Euthanasia advocacyBloggers - please help to pass this around the Internet!!!
"Her mind is fully there," said the baby's mother, Tamiko Dismuke-Howard. "She knows when we are there. I can't give up because she won't give up."
Once upon a time you could go to a doctor and a hospital and count on them to do everything to save a life. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore, and "checkbook euthanasia" seems to be more and more the order of the day. That is something that all of us must do everything possible to reverse!
- Houston ABC13.com
The mother of a critically ill baby is trying to figure out where to
take her child after being told by doctors at Memorial Hermann Hospital
that they would stop treating her in 10 days.
The five-month-old little girl was diagnosed with leukemia just weeks after her birth. Since then, she's undergone a number of different medical treatments and contracted an infection. Doctors and her parents disagree on what should happen next.
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"Her mind is fully there," said the baby's mother, Tamiko
Dismuke-Howard. "She knows when we are there. I can't give up because
she won't give up."
Tamiko picked up a letter from Memorial Hermann Thursday night. It says simply that doctors believe all medical treatment, other than to ease Knya's pain and suffering, would be useless. Her parents have 10 days to find another hospital for Knya or her medical care will stop.
"We will not give up," said Charles Howard, the baby's father. "We are going all the way."
"It's about knowing your child and knowing when they're tired and when they can't go anymore," said Tamiko.
Cross posted at BlogsForTerri
Posted by Hyscience at April 30, 2005 6:12 PM
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Comments
well, all I can say is congratulations -- you picked up on the "real" story -- "checkbook euthanasia" and you've come up with a great term for it -- I just used it in an email to one earnest pundit who I'd sent the Baby Sun Hudson story too, after a column in which she went on and on about Schiavo and the moral state of the nation.
Schiavo's family conflicts are one thing -- and "checkbook euthanasia" is another. In my opinion, all of you "Terri" partisans were being used -- distracted by lies and misinformation -- so that when "checkbook euthanasia" becomes the order of the day, as big business corporate hospitals and insurance companies (concerned only with the bottom line) want it to be -- those in the government who pass laws allowing hospitals and insurance companies to save money by disconnecting patients against the will of the family, can turn around and blame the "evil liberals" who "killed" Terri Schiavo.
George W. Bush signed the law in the Texas that allows hospitals to disconnect patients against the will of the family -- did you know that?
anyway, I wish you good luck, that is if you're going to work against the real "checkbook euthanasia" and not just let yourself be used by the sort of corrupt politicians and TV religious conmen who gathered like vultures around the Terri Schiavo story.
Posted by: jennifer poole at May 3, 2005 11:23 AM
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