Doctors Want to Kill Patient in Houston Hospital
A little of one year ago, a woman in Florida, named Terri Schiavo had her feeding tube removed allowing her to die. Her husband, Michael, said that it was Terri’s wish not to be kept alive through machines. She had been declared to be in a vegetative state so Michael had the feeding tube was removed and Terri died on March 31, 2005. Mrs. Schiavo had a feeding tube feeding tube for 15 years before she died.
Fast forward a year and now we have Andrea Clarke who is in St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston. Apparently Ms. Clarke had a heart operation, but because of complications and bed sores, the doctors placed her in coma. Unlike Terri Schiavo, Andrea had expressed a will to live. Now the doctors want to pull the plug even though she would come out of the coma if taken off of medication. This is a really weird situation. Andrea has insurance and so paying for the stay is not a problem. Nevertheless, the doctors have given the family ten days to work out other arrangements. How this can happen in the great state of Texas is beyond me. The family is desperate and they really needs your prayers.
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These circumstances sounds like the Futile Care law that Bush signed while he was governor. Not to defend the hospital, but it applies only to folks on Medicaid. I do think it’s the rankest hypocrisy for the signer of the Futile CAre bill to sign the Terri Schiavo act, but that’s nothing new.
Other folks have also been killed under this program. I am aware of three others who wished to live and all three were conscious, not in a coma.
In fairness to Bush, the law he signed was to extend the time to find a hospital willing to give care from three days in the original law to the 10 that families have today.
It was the best he could get, although some say he should have vetoed the bill and let the family of the patient denied care go to court. I do not believe that he signed the original Futile Care law that allows this outrage to take place.