2 minutes and a half.
Norman Fost is speaking about withdrawing and withholding aggressive treatments from “seriously ill children, children who are suffering”, children who may not “wake up and start functioning again” and about child abuse prevention.
In his child abuse prevention program, they identify “high risk parents” in nurseries and send home visitors to them. In this video that is only pasted bits of the interview, Fost doesn’t explain how they define “high risk” or how they identify them except “they know who they are.” That reminds me of “the Minority Report. “
To justify this program, Fost says, “As a pediatrician, my most important client is child. “ Wow…… I’m stunned. In my recollection, his most important client has been parents and the parental right to decide all though the Ashley Treatment controversy.
Maybe his most important client is neither child nor parents nor even parental rights. Maybe it is medicine and physician’s right to decide, in short, medical control.
