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- 17 de Mar, 2019
People rarely take into account the feelings and mental health of the medical professionals who have to care for babies and children who are, for lack of a better term, incompatible with life. I can't find the case now (and it wasn't Jahi), but there was a little girl in California who's family is insisting on keeping her alive, even though for all intents & purposes, they should have let her go a long time ago. The child screams every time she's touched and the nurses, who took a vow to heal and not to hurt, feel they are just torturing this poor child doing basic care and maintenance, like changing her diaper and her IVS, etc. The say that they understand that sometimes they have to 'hurt' or cause a patient pain, but with the knowledge that the ultimate end results is to heal the patient....with this child, they feel like they are just causing this poor child pain unnecessarily. There are nurses who refuse to work with the child because of how damaging it has been to their own mental health. Of course the mother is taking it to court, saying her child communicates with her, etc. But she is not the one subjected to the mental anguish of caring for this child.
Okay, sorry, rant over.
That sounds an awful lot like Baby Tinslee, but she's in Texas, not California. I shudder to think there might be another case like her.