U.S. taking Baby Joseph?

[Casino67]

Lfpress.com:

An American hospital has agreed to treat Baby Joseph, unconfirmed reports suggest.

Postings on social media Friday afternoon claim a U.S. hospital has agreed to a transfer and details in the posts lend them some air of authenticity.

The posting include(s) what might be the text of a letter from the chair of a pediatrics department at the hospital who writes that he has authority to accept the transfer and offer Joseph's parents a second opinion.

The pediatric chair also writes that the transfer has the backing of the hospital's chief executive, directors of medical ethics, pediatric critical care, palliative care.

Baby Joseph has been in the care of LHSC since October.

The hospitals' doctors sought his parents' consent to remove the breathing tube that keeps him alive.

But his parents, Moe Maraachli and Sana Nader, refused and instead asked doctors to perform a tracheotomy in the belief they can take him home -- as they did eight years ago with their daughter, Zina, who later died.

Baby Joseph's doctors opposed the parents' request because they believe he is in a vegetative state, from which he can't recover -- something Martini and family members dispute.

Joseph's parents refused to give consent to remove his breathing tube, so doctors went to Ontario's Consent and Capacity Board, whose members sided with the doctors.

Last month, the board's decision was upheld as reasonable by a London judge.

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At least it gives the parents some hope.

[SrWoodchuck]

Hooray for pre-Obamacare medicene, and the doctors and staff that decided for life, over death....however brief.

 

[snipped & pasted from Wikipedia -a questionable source.....and with all highlighting, my own]

 

Hippocratic Oath From Wikipedia

 

The Hippocratic Oath (orkos) is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. It requires a new physician to swear upon a number of healing gods that he will uphold a number of professional ethical standards.

 

The Hippocratic Oath has been updated by the Declaration of Geneva. In the United Kingdom, the General Medical Council provides clear modern guidance in the form of its Duties of a Doctor[6] and Good Medical Practice[7] statements.

 

Modern version:

 

.....widely used modern version of the traditional oath was penned in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna, former Principal of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University:[8]

 

“ I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

 

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

 

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

 

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

 

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

 

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

 

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

 

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

 

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.”

 

Modern relevance: The original text of the Hippocratic Oath is usually interpreted as one of the first statements of a moral of conduct to be used by physicians, assuming the respect for all human life. Some Christian traditions interpret the original Hippocratic Oath as a condemnation of abortion.

 

According to Margaret Mead:

 

“ For the first time in our tradition there was a complete separation between killing and curing. Throughout the primitive world, the doctor and the sorcerer tended to be the same person. He with the power to kill had power to cure, including specially the undoing of his own killing activities. He who had the power to cure would necessarily also be able to kill... With the Greeks the distinction was made clear. One profession, the followers of Asclepius, were to be dedicated completely to life under all circumstances, regardless of rank, age or intellect – the life of a slave, the life of the Emperor, the life of a foreign man, the life of a defective child...[9] ”

 

 

All italics are my post.Originally, the "Rod of Asclepius" a single snake around a rod, was the symbol of medicene.

 

The modern symbol of doctors, the caduceus, [intertwining snakes on a winged staff] has been the symbol of medicene & doctors since 3,000-4,000 BC [Mesopotamia] and in the US since 1902, when it was adopted by the US Army Medical Corp.

 

The new symbol of Obamacare & British National Healthcare should be an arm with a stick, beating a large group of snakes writhing on the ground