posted on: October 19, 2020
The family of 15-year-old Jahi McMath released a photo of her last week. Futile care is unethical, particularly if it causes pain to the patient. There are many documented cases. She was declared brain-dead in California after tonsil, throat and nose surgeries to relieve her sleep apnea. As many of you know, her family does not believe she is dead, although multiple physicians have documented she is and the county medical examiner’s office (the coroner) has issued a death certificate. @Blanca – I had heard these stories, but have not been able to find actual sources for them. My surmisings are my opinions, as are yours. So far, all I’ve been able to determine is that these are hearsay, and have not been able to find the actual quotes from these individuals. And I call it like I see it. Jahi McMath, pronounced dead years ago, is 'healthy,' new photo claims. The certification was corroborated by an independent neurologist from Stanford University. The example of sepsis bundles.
An Interview with San Francisco’s Senior Associate Attorney: Megan Irish. When Jahi’s family rejected California’s determination of death, experts such as bioethicist Laurence McCullough of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston called their logic “disordered, from a medical point of view. She will be returned to California to be buried near her family and friends. “And this could really be kind of a bombshell.”, Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. In this Oct. 2, 2014 file photo Christopher Dolan, attorney for Jahi McMath's family, shows a photo of the 13-year-old Oakland girl during a press conference at Dolan Law Firm in San Francisco, Calif. Dolan showed photos and a pair of videos where McMatth moves her foot and arm as a response to the voice of her mother Nailah Winkfield in a home in New Jersey. I’m not a medical professional, so I can just say without qualification that it appears to me that the family’s story is largely made up, most likely to hide their at least partial culpability for what happened, as in, “thou dost protest too loudly. Around 1:40 she mentions the suctioning. I am unaware of any cases of this. The widely-publicized and hotly-debated fight over her fate illuminates a little-known fact: “Brain death” is an important legal term, but the underlying biology may be far less decisive. Josh Hafner. California declared Jahi dead in 2015, but the Oakland teen continued to grow, developed breasts, had menstrual cycles, digested food, excreted waste, fought off infections, healed wounds and seemed to respond to basic commands, according to medical testimony provided at a conference about the case. She has been living peacefully with me and my family in New Jersey. Jahi had been living at home, with her mother Nailah Winkfield, her stepfather Marvin Winkfield, and younger sister in New Jersey for the last 4 years.
This is a well-known complication after tonsillectomy if the clots fall off. You are a great mother who did a great thing for her daughter…you fought for her life. As much as I’d like to hope that no nurse handed the grandmother a suction wand with instructions to “suction her”, I’ve been a registered nurse for 34 years and I’ve seen some awful judgment calls by nurses and physicians. Yes, I've heard the ... Keeping Your Kids Out of the Emergency Room, Chapter One – Like Ships Passing in the Night, Chapter One – Running the PICU Marathon – A Parent’s Challenge. We had a huge court battle similar to this case, with the court ultimately allowing us to withdraw support.
A key principle here is that a family cannot force me to behave unethically, and continuing organ support of a dead person is disrespectful of the dead — mutilating to the body.
It’s interesting that your rather exclusionary conclusion is based on no other evidence than family hearsay regarding the timeline, as neither of us has access to the record and a postmortem exam is not going to answer that question now. The doctors pushed his family to take him off life support so that his organs can be used. “If Jahi were brain dead, we would expect her MRI at nine months to show a similar pattern with near total destruction,” Shewmon said. "Jahi McMath was not brain-dead or any other kind of dead," Winkfield said in a statement. Christopher, here is the source for the mother’s account. “We would say that Jahi’s parents were far from crazy in believing their daughter to still be biologically alive,” according to Truog. Organs failure sets in….it gets nasty. “. She now has two death certificates — one issued by California on Dec. 12, 2013, and one issued by New Jersey on June 22. As an alternative, we can do the bedside test followed by a simple scan to determine of there is any blood flowing to the brain. And the details are everything.
Her family is suing the hospital that performed the operation. We are with you all in your sorrow and we will keep you in our prayers. He wore a button on his shirt with a picture of his smiling niece. That makes total sense. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), In this Oct. 2, 2014 file photo Sandra Chatman, left, and Nailah Winkfield look on as a photo of their granddaughter and daughter, respectively, Jahi McMath, 13, is shown during a press conference at Dolan Law Firm in San Francisco, Calif. Christopher Dolan, attorney for Jahi McMath's family, showed photos and a pair of videos where McMath moves her foot and arm in response to the voice of her mother Nailah Winkfield in a home in New Jersey. I am honored to have been of service to them as a lawyer. Dolan, too, said he has seen Jahi move and show signs that she could recover. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group), Chris Dolan, right, attorney for the family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, conducts a press conference with uncle Omari Sealey, left, and grandmother Sandra Chatman outside Children's Hospital Oakland, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 in Oakland, Calif. A judge granted an injunction to the family to keep the girl, who is brain-dead, on a ventilator until at least Jan. 7. I was the one holding her hand and reassuring her that everything was going to be OK.’. I know this from experience. "If you read the medical records, it's just a pretty cavalier approach to the whole thing," the family's attorney, Bruce Brusavich, a Southern California medical malpractice attorney, told the newspaper. OAKLAND, Calif. -- The family of an Oakland teenager who was declared brain dead after complications from surgery in 2013 plans to file a lawsuit Tuesday against UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland with new details about the allegedly botched surgery, CBS San Francsico reports. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. It also seems that her care givers could give Jahi cranial MRI to see what’s there. ‘She said ‘’Grandma this hurt so bad” and I said everything would work out and it hasn’t. We all have opinions, but we obviously don’t know exactly what happened. I have a couple of thoughts. This undated photo provided by the McMath family and Omari Sealey shows Jahi McMath. How can a family remove a body from the hospital ? Meanwhile, advances in care are also improving outcomes, said Harvard’s Truog. But I see how a family could be confused by movement due to Lazerus(sp?) Before joining the Chronicle, Alexander worked as a freelance writer and as a staff reporter for several media organizations, including The Fresno Bee and Bay Area News Group, writing about government, politics and the environment. “By having some degree of improvement in her functioning, legally she’s gone from being in the ‘dead’ portion to being in the ‘alive’ portion,” Truog said. I’ve been in that situation. There was no atrophy of the cortex. Jahi, 13, remains on a ventilator at Children's Hospital Oakland after suffering tragic complications during surgery. I don’t see how a family could possibly dispute facts like that? It is tragic that only now, after her death can I bring my daughter home.”, When asked what she hopes people have learned from Jahi’s saga Nailah replied: “I hope people have learned that they have the right to stand up for their loved ones and reject the rush to end their lives. How many calories does your child need to grow? These two tests together give us an immediate answer, and many hospitals require the flow study for children. How do I vote in my state in the 2020 election? Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox. Furthermore, her badly damaged brain had regions that were still intact — and there are clinical signs that she incrementally improved over time, seemingly crossing the line between “brain dead” into life in a “minimally conscious state,” though there was never any hope she would recover further, doctors said. One other thing I’m occasionally asked: Has anyone who was declared brain dead ever been found later not to be dead? Jahi suffered major brain injury at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland after going into cardiac arrest following complications from complex nose and throat surgery.
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