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MikeWaters · 05-15-2009, 04:27 PM

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12377517

I'm pretty sure I have mentioned a similar case. A pediatric heme/onc doc in Houston, evaluating a boy with leukemia, parents refused treatment despite a 90% chance of survival with treatment, and low chance of survival without treatment.

So the doc filed a report with CPS.

Doc was sued by parents for filing report, and case dragged on for years. A lawsuit can be quite disruptive in a person's life. After many years, the plaintiffs lost the suit, and the law firm that brought the suit was effectively bankrupted as a result. All this per the doc, firsthand.

This doctor saved the boy's life, and for his efforts, suffered greatly.

The medical team and the doctor, took great relish and joy in the part of the story where the law firm went under.

il Padrino Ute · 05-15-2009, 04:33 PM

I don't understand the mindset of parents that would not want to do whatever possible to treat their child that has cancer.

05-15-2009, 04:27 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Parents sue to treat son's cancer with natural "remedies" http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12377517 I'm pretty sure I have mentioned a similar case. A pediatric heme/onc doc in Houston, evaluating a boy with leukemia, parents refused treatment despite a 90% chance of survival with treatment, and low chance of survival without treatment. So the doc filed a report with CPS. Doc was sued by parents for filing report, and case dragged on for years. A lawsuit can be quite disruptive in a person's life. After many years, the plaintiffs lost the suit, and the law firm that brought the suit was effectively bankrupted as a result. All this per the doc, firsthand. This doctor saved the boy's life, and for his efforts, suffered greatly. The medical team and the doctor, took great relish and joy in the part of the story where the law firm went under.

05-15-2009, 04:33 PM	#2
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	I don't understand the mindset of parents that would not want to do whatever possible to treat their child that has cancer. __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.