Family stops hospital from taking boy off life support
The family of 14-year-old Michael Todd has received a restraining order preventing the University of Kansas Hospital from taking the boy off of life support. The boy was shot Tuesday at a Blue Springs, Missouri apartment. According to a witness, the gun may have gone off accidentally.
The family believes that the hospital is eager to take the boy off of life support because they want the organs for a donor program.
Whether that is true or not, is one question but who decides is another. When does the rights of the family to decide what care is given to a patient end? Why would a hospital get to decide when to stop care? I know that if I am ever in that situation, I would want my wife and I to make that decision for our child, not some hospital administrator.
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