Your overly emotional response is unnecessary.
Here's what upsets me, and why I express my upset. The doctors think the woman is brain dead, but they were wrong the last time she needed help. Now it seems just fine to them to terminate her against the family's wishes.
Without coming up with 30,000 or so dollars, dollars they didn't need before this, the hospital wants to do it regardless of what they want.
It is entirely possible that it was botched. Which is why we have courts ... so people can sue and financially cover from their losses.
What is your point?
Still yet, those who are not medical professionals, do not have the knowledge, experience or training to dictate the best course of medical treatment.
I think they have the knowledge to tell if they are feeling in grave danger with dangerous pain and symptoms of blood loss, and if they can't even walk when normally they can, it's worse than incompetent to throw them out! They
do know enough to have a say.
Now, as to brain death, they have been wrong so often that they should not treat her body as a corpse before it stops and before the family feels she is gone. The family has the right to not give up, the body of their mother could house a living brain, and anyway, even a vegetative state is valued as sacred by many.
From the article, it seems as though from the time she left the hospital to the time that she collapsed was a half an hour.
She suffered a heart attack from blood loss. The symptoms of blood loss are very apparent. She knew she was in trouble. Her husband could see her pallor and knew she was in trouble.
Had she still been in the hospital when she lapsed in the coma, it would have been the same outcome.
She didn't first lapse into a coma, she first had sign after sign and finally, after having a heart attack also stopped breathing.
Had she been in hospital they could have responded faster to their first lapse in judgment. But they shouldn't have missed it in the first place;
ultrasound is especially useful in evaluating obstetric and gynecologic problems such as bleeding from an ovarian cyst or an ectopic or tubal pregnancy.
An ultrasound was done which means the condition didn't show up.
No, it meant the ultrasound was used incorrectly and the operator should be sent for further training. The hospital needs to change its policy. Chances are, this situation stemmed from bigotry or generalized arrogance on a level that should never be seen in the profession.
Since medicine is monopolized to the medical board we have no one to turn to if they tell us the won't help and the hospitals are tied together.
Kidney stones has similar symptoms to an ectopic pregnancy. Outside of rushing her into exploratory surgery (where there would have been more blood loss), what exact medical treatment/procedure do you believe should have been administered?
I believe if she was afraid to leave the ER they should have sent her to be monitored in the waiting room until they could gather enough information to evaluate her situation better.
If she had stopped breathing in the ER she would not be in a coma.
They have no right to kill her when their idiocy put her into that condition.
