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Jahiさんの転院に関わった支援者の周辺情報や
大手メディアが報じない詳細が書かれている。
大手メディアが報じない詳細が書かれている。
伝聞情報を含んでいる点には注意を要すると思いますが、
非常に重要な情報ばかりなので、特に重大と思われる3箇所を以下にコピペ。
非常に重要な情報ばかりなので、特に重大と思われる3箇所を以下にコピペ。
訳す余裕がないので、
たちまち英文のままで、ポイントのみ。
たちまち英文のままで、ポイントのみ。
①著者がジャハイさん一家の支援者から聞いた話として
臓器提供と売買への働きかけがあった。
臓器提供と売買への働きかけがあった。
She was put on a ventilator to allow her to continue to breathe, but, within four days, Oakland Children’s Hospital tried to pull the plug on the ventilator. They told the family that she was dead already and so they wanted to disconnect the machinery. Simultaneously a team of organ harvesters pressured the family to release her vital organs so they could be sold for amounts typically near $100,000. Jahi’s mother refused. She could not believe that after only a few days had elapsed since a violent trauma (cardiac arrest and brain injury) the hospital simply wanted to give up for dead, paving the way to sell her organs for a profit.
②病院の医師らで死亡診断書に署名可能だったものを、わざわざ郡の検死官に求めた病院。
しかも、検死官もまだ署名していない。
しかも、検死官もまだ署名していない。
In Jahi’s case the hospital wanted her to be dead but their own attending physician would not sign a death certificate. They attempted to push off responsibility to the county coroner by trying to get him to sign an unsupported death certificate. The coroner would not do so, and so he now appears to haveprepared a death certificate but never actually signed it. Despite the media reports that the coroner’s office has issued a death certificate, that death certificate by all accounts is not only “incomplete,” but unsigned and not registered electronically. Clearly from their hesitancy we can presume that the coroner’s office is afraid to act, sensing something is not right in the case.
③the Wrongful Death & Injury Instituteが、この事件に関して、
病院側の医療過誤訴訟を見越した賠償金削減の狙いによるものだと指摘。
脳死診断基準がコスト削減やライアビリティ訴訟に利用されてはならない、と。
病院側の医療過誤訴訟を見越した賠償金削減の狙いによるものだと指摘。
脳死診断基準がコスト削減やライアビリティ訴訟に利用されてはならない、と。
The Wrongful Death & Injury Institute cut through the issues in the case and called a spade a spade when they concluded that the issues have nothing “to do with giving the family false hope. It has nothing to do with the family’s unwillingness to face facts. It does have everything to do with a hospital’s fear of liability for what might later be proven to have been abotched surgery and their subsequent premeditated attempt to minimize that liability by attempting to hasten her death. . . . Brain Death Criteria should NOT be used by medical and governmental staffers as the tool to cut costs, and deflect and/or minimize liability.”
