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Originally Posted by CalgaryFan1988
Again, chemo put the child into ICU. They felt that chemo was killing their child and probably had a very hard time seeing their child suffer like that.
If I was the parent, of course I would have continued the chemo, but I'm sure (given what they know now), the parents would have too.
Doctors aren't always right either, they are human like everyone else.
Personally, we listened to the doctors and (in hindsight) we shouldn't have. Easy to say now, but at the time we trusted their word.
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When you say "chemo put her in the ICU", you make it sound like she was perfectly healthy before treatment. Of course that is not true. Chemo is an incredibly difficult thing to go through. It is the introduction of toxins in the body to fight the cancer. As tough as it may seem, it is temporary and as others have said, it would provide a 75% chance of survival rate versus 0%. The critique of the parents and the judicial system has nothing to do with hindsight. It isn't a results based critique, it is how they made that determination in the first place.
I am curious why you said as a parent, "of course" you would have continued treatment.