Late Sunday night, Children’s Hospital Oakland released Jahi to her family after a protracted legal battle over whether the hospital had the right to remove her from life support.
On Friday, the hospital reached an agreement with McMath’s family to allow a medical team to enter the hospital to perform the procedures necessary to move her to a medical facility that will continue her care and treatment.Although the hospital maintains McMath is “brain dead,” her mother and family say she is alive following a tonsillectomy gone awry that has left her in an incapacitated state since early December. The family in the case says the hospital has been starving Jahi for three weeks. .
Family attorney Christopher McMath says that has taken its toll, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan, told the San Jose Mercury News, however, that Jahi’s body has deteriorated badly in the weeks since she was declared brain-dead.
“She’s in very bad shape,” he said. “What I can tell you is that those examinations show that her medical condition, separate from the brain issue, is not good.”
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Jahi McMath in ‘Very Bad Shape” After Weeks of Starvation, Medical Neglect
Doctors and hospitals are so darned arrogant. Is she dead? Maybe, but maybe not too. At least they could have given her some time and given her nutrition while they did.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad statement about society.
So now, if she doesn't recover, the hospital will say, "See? We told you she was dead." They've done everything in their power to see that she is.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/health/the-science-behind-brain-death.html?hp&_r=0
ReplyDeleteCommon theme? Ignore the laws that give the FAMILY, not arrogant medical providers, the say in these difficult decisions.