When the hospital admitted Ashley’s hysterectomy had been illegal last May, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported in their May 9 article that the Washington Department of Health was planning a further investigation. Steven Saxe, director of facilities and services licensing for the department said in the article that the department is planning to investigate further to [...]
Archive for March, 2008
What about the Department of Health investigation?
Posted in investigation, tagged Ashley treatment, disabilities, hysterectomy, pillow angel, punitive actions, state law on March 28, 2008 |
“Special” committee to exclude outsiders?
Posted in the special ethics committee, tagged Asahley treatment, disability rights, ethics committee, growth attenuation, pillow angel on March 25, 2008 |
According to the mission statement for the ethics committee of the Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center, attached to the WPAS investigative report as the exhibit H, The membership is representative of the medical staff, other hospital health care providers, the Board of Trustees, and the community. Membership shall serve on a continuous basis [...]
Facts about the Seattle hospital and money
Posted in Ashley's father, Money, tagged Ashley treatment, disabilities, growth attenuation, pillow angel on March 19, 2008 |
Fact 1. According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2002 Annual Report, Washington University Foundation ranked No 1 in the amount of the grant given from the Pacific Northwest Grant Program of the foundation. They got $ 70,000,000. The organization that got the second largest sum on the program that year was the [...]
Defended really UNKNOWINGLY?
Posted in the media, tagged Ashley treatment, disabilities, ethics, growth attenuation, media, pillow angel on March 15, 2008 |
The Seattle Times is one of the major local newspapers in Seattle. But it seems that they didn’t assign any of their journalists to the Ashley case. At least they didn’t during January and February when the furious controversy was going on. They kept on borrowing stories during the period. They borrowed from the Los [...]
Ashley’s father and the media
Posted in Ashley's father, the media, tagged Ashley treatment, disabilities, ethics, growth attenuation, media on March 14, 2008 |
Ashley’s father updated his blog Wednesday and criticized the CNN story about their interview. He points out three defects of Amy Burkholder’s story Disabled girl’s parents defend growth-stunting treatment. But he is basically frustrated because the story didn’t give him a wholehearted support. It is actually amazing that he seems to have expected the media to write [...]
Why did the information disappear?
Posted in Ashley's father, the media, tagged Ashley, disabilities, growth attenuation, media, pillow angel on March 13, 2008 |
One of the big questions about the information that Ashley’s father is a software executive is why nobody talked about it as I wrote in my previous post. But one of the big mysteries is why the information disappeared from the Los Angels Times article the next day when the Seattle Times published it. The Los Angels [...]
Why doesn’t anyone talk about Ashley’s father being a software exec?
Posted in Ashley's father, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, Ashley's father, growth attenuation, pillow angel on March 6, 2008 |
A fact: Ashley’s father is a software executive. This information was in the Los Angels Times article of January 3, 2007, Parents defend decision to keep disabled girl small. The article, by the way, was the very first to report about Ashley’s father’s blog last year. The Daily Mail article of January 5, 2007, Why [...]
