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polak · 01-23-2015, 03:22 PM

I think that the government should be able to step in when it's a matter of life and death for the child and there is an overwhelmingly one sided consensus of what treatment the child should recieve amongst medical professionals.

There was no grey area in this situation.

It would be much different if she had very low odds of survival. Then it becomes a very murky issue. Personally I believe that a child has so much life left to live that you should try until the very end but I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the parents if the odds were grim, as I am in this case.

As for the inevitable next question of "okay, at what chance of survival do we intervine?" I don't know. But you sure as hell intervine if it's 75%.

01-23-2015, 03:22 PM	#95
polak In the Sin Bin Join Date: Aug 2012 Exp:	I think that the government should be able to step in when it's a matter of life and death for the child and there is an overwhelmingly one sided consensus of what treatment the child should recieve amongst medical professionals. There was no grey area in this situation. It would be much different if she had very low odds of survival. Then it becomes a very murky issue. Personally I believe that a child has so much life left to live that you should try until the very end but I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the parents if the odds were grim, as I am in this case. As for the inevitable next question of "okay, at what chance of survival do we intervine?" I don't know. But you sure as hell intervine if it's 75%. Last edited by polak; 01-23-2015 at 03:26 PM.