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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I'm not sure they are guilty. They're crazy and stupid. But doctors make the same mistake all the time. Other people have made the same mistake without the cloak of natural medicine. We'll see I guess but i would not be surprised if they're not guilty.
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Stupidity does not excuse negligence. They are guilty.
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March 12, 2012: Ezekiel’s body is so stiff that his back is arched. He is getting fluids through an eyedropper because he will not drink on his own. Meynders comes to the home and checks his vitals. She suggests he could possibly have viral meningitis and says she tells the mother she should take the boy to a doctor. “It did not jump out at me that he was that seriously ill,” Meynders testifies.
March 13, 2012: The Stephans head to Lethbridge to pick up an echinacea mixture from a naturopath. Ezekiel is too stiff to sit in his car seat and has to lie on a mattress in the vehicle. Back at home that evening, the boy stops breathing on a couple of occasions before his parents leave home to meet an ambulance. The breathing equipment in the ambulance it too large to properly help a small child. The boy is taken to hospital in Cardston and then to Lethbridge for transport to Calgary by air.
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When someone with some medical experience tells you to take the kid to the doctor (in this case the birthing assistant) and your response is to go get some echinacea, you no longer get the benefit of the doubt.