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<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by willfish4food »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">http://specialchildren.about.c...y.htm</td></tr></table>
You know Johnny, this is going to get ugly.
I think it's pretty rediculous that they would deny her a transplant from a family member just because she was intellectually challenged http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/devil.gif
Now they are going to have to base line intellectual fitness. Where is that going to stop ?
Hospital shouldn't have a say in this.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by fordguy_85 »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I think it's pretty rediculous that they would deny her a transplant from a family member just because she was intellectually challenged http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/devil.gif </td></tr></table>
agree... It a family member..
Should let the dad have a few minutes alone in a room with that doctor http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/mad.gif
My niece had to go through a process to be allowed to get a liver transplant. They wanted to judge her value to society among other things.
Needless to say, I had some very harsh criticism regarding this process and vocalized it accordingly. The medical field has absolutely no business in these types of determinations. http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/mad.gif http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/mad.gif
what's next? your too old....or too ugly ( that would be me or too Big.. sounds like Germany were my uncle lives and get any help. He has cancer and they he is too old...
Wait until the goverment's making these decisions for all of us!
That Dr. needs a "Come to Jesus" meeting with his superiors before an irate father arranges a personal meeting with Christ Almighty. http://xs-s.com/zf/images/smile/emhammer.gif http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/mad.gif
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by fordguy_85 »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">I think it's pretty rediculous that they would deny her a transplant from a family member just because she was intellectually challenged http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/devil.gif </td></tr></table>
I'm pretty sure lots of "normal" stupid people get medical treatment, mental disability should not be an issue. You remember when healthcare passed there was the big discussion about "death panels"? Here you go.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by cowtrimmer »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Now they are going to have to base line intellectual fitness. Where is that going to stop ? </td></tr></table>
If it happened all those in favor of obamacare wouldn't be allowed to get a transplant. http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/doh.gif
Sad!!! This is what we all will be subjected to under Obama Care!!
Hasnt evaluation been pretty common practice in transplants for years ? ........obamacare http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/eyes.gif Some people are complaining about something that hasn't even happened yet except under some email theory and blaming it on a common practice that has been in place ever since the first transplants started.
You think doctors making judgments about the worthiness of transplant recipients is bad, just wait until the government dictates to those doctors based on financial and demographic concerns.
You think a 85 year old grandmother, or a 35 year old White male will be at the top of government's list?
Before everyone jumps up and down screaming, then charges the front gates of that hospital waving flaming torches, you all need to step back and re-evaluate this whole story. It's missing a lot of important parts.
How old is the child? How severe is the level of retardation? What other co-morbidities does the child have, and what's the life expectancy of the child even with the transplant? How old or otherwise sickly are the parents? Who's going to be there for the rest of the child's life to give him/her anti-rejection meds? How are those meds going to impact other physical problems the child likely has?
It may sound cold on the surface, but a lot has to be taken into account when dealing with transplants, and even the health of the living donor has to be taken into account.
Again, yes, it sounds cold...but nothing involving organ transplantation is cheap. Organs aren't transplanted into extremely elderly people, or those who can't manage the regimen of medication and followups, because essentially it's a waste of resources when the patient either dies from another malady, or winds up back in the hospital dying because they didn't take their meds.
Those parents are perfectly free to take that child to another hospital, and consult other doctors. Of course, they have to be willing to understand that that hospital will likely also turn them down.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by cowtrimmer »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Hasnt evaluation been pretty common practice in transplants for years ? ........obamacare http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/eyes.gif Some people are complaining about something that hasn't even happened yet except under some email theory and blaming it on a common practice that has been in place ever since the first transplants started. </td></tr></table>
My niece was evaluated over 15 years ago. It is a common practice for transplant patients and has absolutely nothing to do with Obamacare.
What I find funny is those people who complain about Obamacare don't understand that the only thing that passed was what the insurance companies wanted. It mandated that everyone had to have insurance and that was about it. It gave the insurance companies complete power, which is exactly the opposite of what it's intentions were. http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/eyes.gif
Sorry, but I don't want doctors or insurance companies deciding who gets care and who doesn't. I would rather have the government at the very least, regulate that. But as with most things, scare tactics and party politics, rule the day.
As I've said before.........our inability to unite and put certain things aside........create the real enemy that we despise.