At the beginning of the “debate” between Dr. Fost and Dr. Lantos on the Bioethics Channel, the interviewer said, “Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost were both involved in the Ashley X case”. Dr. Fost himself put a little distance from the case by saying “what the Seattle team had done” in explaining why “we” the [...]
Archive for January, 2010
What is the role Dr. Fost has been playing in the Ashley X case?
Posted in generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on January 31, 2010 |
The mystery of April 2008
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, investigation, the WPAS report, Uncategorized, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on January 29, 2010 |
Thanks to Ashley’s father, we now know about the growth attenuation panel in the AAP annual conference in May 2008. Dr. Diekema of the Seattle Children’s Hospital chaired the panel. This piece of new information bothers me. The panel had been planned for some time before the conference, of course. Dr. Diekema must have been [...]
Dr. Lantos “Nobody knows what went on in that ethics committee meeting”
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation on January 29, 2010 |
Visit this bioethics site and go to the Bioethics Channel from the link there. Yes, this debate between Dr. Fost and Dr. John Lantos who wrote a critical commentary in AJOB deserves a listen. Dr. Lantos says court review is absolutely necessary, pointing out three problems of ethics committees in cases like the Ashley case: [...]
“The Ashley Treatment” has been done to a dozen of children, Ashley’s father says, but who sent the email to him?
Posted in Ashley's father, Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on January 26, 2010 |
In his third anniversary update of January 13, Ashley’s father writes “About dozen parents all over the world who are successful at providing the treatment to their Pillow Angels (boys and girls) are in contact with us.” He also mentions an email from “an attending doctor of a panel on Growth Attenuation at the pediatric [...]
