In their paper published in the June issue of the Pediatrics, the authors define profound cognitive disability “as including nonambulation and requiring assistance with nearly every aspect of daily living, remaining completely dependent on others for even basic care after careful attempts at training, and the inability to understand or express oneself in nuanced ways”. [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The mystery of the definition of profound cognitive disability in the new growth attenuation paper
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, generalization of growth attenuation, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, medical decision-making, medical ethics, mentally disabled, pillow angel, Seattle Children's on June 20, 2009 | Comments Off
The new growth attenuation paper by Dr. Diekema, Dr. Fost with others
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, generalization of growth attenuation, the WPAS report, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, ethics consultation, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, medical ethics, mentally disabled, pillow angel, Seattle Children's, University of Washington, WPAS on June 20, 2009 | Comments Off
I read the full text of the growth-attenuation paper written by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost with others in the June issue of the Pediatrics. So many questions and mysteries again. I will just point out some of them here for now. Some of the questions and mysteries will be reviewed more closely in my [...]
Links 7: Norman Fost
Posted in information, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, medical ethics, pillow angel, Seattle Children's on June 8, 2009 | Comments Off
The series of Links posts will remain subject to corrections and additions any time.
Who is Norman Fost?
http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/viewsource.asp?ID=7367
(Sports and Drugs, ProCon org. with his background details)
http://bioethics.seattlechildrens.org/events/pediatric_bioethics_conference/norman_fost_md_mph.asp
(Seattle Children’s site, speaker’s profile for 2009 Pediatrics Bioethics Conference)
Norman Fost in the Ashley case controversy
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/12/lkl.01.html
(Larry King Live, January 12, 2007)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-pillow-angel-case–th
(ScientificAmerican.com, January 5, 2007)
Norman Fost at Pediatric Bioethics Conference of the [...]
Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost wrote a new paper on growth attenuation
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, information, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, medical ethics, pillow angel on June 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost with others wrote a paper on growth attenuation in the June issue of the Pediatrics. Check this up.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/123/6/1556
Growth-Attenuation Therapy: Principles for Practice
Pediatrics Vol. 123 No.6 June 2009, pp. 1556-1561
Also see here for information about Dr. Fost. Actually there’s a lot more to know about him. More info will follow in future [...]
