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Who Do You Save? Posted By: shannonj
Posted On: 05/09/2008
Yesterday, a CNN article was brought to my attention regarding newly designed steps health professionals will be urged to take in the event of a national crisis such as a pandemic. The title was Docs List Who Would be Allowed to Die in a Catastrophe. Apparently, the CDC, Homeland Security and DHHS has put together a profile listing the members of society who would be denied treatment if medical staff and resources are limited.
This list includes, among others, those individuals with severe mental impairment.....

I don't know about you, but I don't feel comfortable waiting around to find out if that list might include my 13 year old son with autism.

Wanting to discuss this disturbing topic, I reached out to my new friend, Lisa Jo Rudy, of About.com fame.

From our e-mail conversation came her recent blog. Take a few minutes to read her blog and let her know what you think on this matter. Unfortunately, no one is going to advocate better for our kids than us, so we do need to be paying attention...

http://autism.about.com/
(you may have to scroll down)

CNN Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/05/pandemic.rationing.ap/index.html
       
KevinLivsDad wrote this reply on 05/09/2008
That fuhqin makes me irrate... Well, if the poop hits the fan

KevinLivsDad wrote this reply on 05/09/2008
I guess my reply got censored below ;) Anyway, maybe this will work. If it hits the fan I'll be packin my 12 ga as my insurance provider. And, nothin short of a Sherman tank is going to deny my little girl from treatment

Motherof4 wrote this reply on 05/10/2008
Disturbing is a mild word for this! This sounds so much like the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, it sickens me. My husband was just saying they should adopt the military model, triage, based on who can recover rather than who "deserves" to live. To whom do we complain?

mercurymom wrote this reply on 05/10/2008
I got a touch of this a couple of years ago. John lost many of his physical skills, even the ability to cough..so when his lungs filled with fluid..in a days time he grew ill, and my dog woke me up in the middle of the night..John was turning blue. I rushed to the emergency room..he was not breathing well at all...the ER Md started out nice..but when he spoke to John and I said "he is non-verbal and cannot answer you this way" he honestly grew annoyed. Turned out John was so far gone septic shock had set in. The Md did nothing as he leaned against the wall reading John's foot thick medical file. John was sturggling to breath and the nurse had a panic look on her face. The Md just ask me questions about "What's all this stuff you are doing with him...why..did you know he will not recover?" The door opened and an MD I knew from church, a heart guy, walked in, looked at John, and told the other Md to get out. He started yelling orders at once and put John on oxygen..the room filled with people doing things to John..and after about 15 minutes the heart Md pulled me outside. He told me John was at the point of death, due to his prior vaccine damage..but he would do all he could to save him..that he would take him on as his. I ask him if he could as he did not see childern,nor was this an heart issue. He just patted my arm and said "Cheryl, it IS an heart issue, your heart, your son. I know you don't know me, but I know you, and I know you have moved heaven and earth for his child, nobody will write him off on my watch." I will forever be thankful he was there that night and that some upset nurse happend to say something to him about the ER MD not doing anything for John. Some people do have compassion...some..only see the value of life as in what can you do for me..how much work can you produce, attitude. I am sorry to say..the day will come..chosen ones will be saved..and some people will have no problems making that choice.

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