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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HiredHand" data-source="post: 4161430" data-attributes="member: 2469">The difference would be that she had a terminal disease and it was against medical advice to continue providing life supporting care. Because the family didn’t want the hospital to discontinue care it was taken to a court. The court agreed with the opinion of the medical professionals. The government didn’t make the call the courts did. The very same thing happens here all the time. Hospitals don’t have infinite resources. The medical teams will advise patients and families when continuing treatment is no longer viable or beneficial to the patient. You just don’t hear about every time it happens because rational thinking people aren’t taking the issue before the courts. This happened to me when my father passed away. He suffered a heart attack and was resuscitated in the ER. The reality was that he went far too long without a beating heart and oxygen to his brain. But he was in an CICU for several days to undergo scans to see if there was any brain function and there was not. The medical team advised that we remove life supporting care and we followed that advice. If we had fought that advice and forced the hospital to keep on giving him life supporting care; it wouldn’t have changed a thing except to increase the medical bills and prevented the hospital from being able to care for another critically ill patient that might have had a better chance of survival.</blockquote>

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