I know Peter Singer’s assertion that children with profound mental disabilities are not entitled to “moral status”. I remember Dr. Diekema argued defending the Ashley case that Ashley is not entitled to the same dignity as others are because she is just like a baby. Now I’m shocked to read a paper written by a [...]
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A legal article says that courts should take new standards and approve the “Ashley Treatment” because the therapy can be more important than non-person’s fundamental rights
Posted in Ashley's father, Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, information, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical ethics, parental decision making, pillow angel on October 10, 2009 | Comments Off
Links 8: Dr. Diekema’s lecture at Calvin College in January 2008
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, information, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud, breast bud removal, Calvin University, Calvin University January Series, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on September 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Dr. Diekema gave a lecture, “Live, Jusitce, & Humility: A Bioethicist Meets the ‘Pillow Angel’” at Calvin College, January 18, 2008.
The lecture page of the Calvin College site (RealAudio archive link included)
http://www.calvin.edu/january/2008/diekema.htm
Dr. Diekema’s Inner Campus TV interview at Calvin College after the lecture
(Find IC812 in the page. That will be Dr. D’s interview.)
http://www.calvin.edu/innercompass/icaudio_feed.xml
He spoke before [...]
The Seattle Children’s and the Gates Foundation are hand in hand as “global health leaders”
Posted in Ashley's father, Dr. Diekema's explanation, Money, generalization of growth attenuation, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, medical ethics, pillow angel on September 5, 2009 | Comments Off
According to this article of April 24, 2009 on the Medical News Today, the Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Gates foundation are hand in hand as “global health leaders” in an effort to eliminate prematurity and still births. The article is about a big international conference in Seattle, sponsored by the Global Alliance to Prevent [...]
Dr. Diekema’s latest paper is AAP statement on forgoing nutrition and hydration from children
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, tagged disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, medical decision-making, medical ethics on July 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Forgoing Medically Provided Nutrition and Hydration in Children
Douglas S. Diekema, MD MPH, Jeffrey R. Botkin, MD, MPH Committee on Bioethics
PEDIATRICS Vol. 124 No.2 August 2009, pp. 813-822
An excerpt from the abstract:
The American Academy of Pediatrics concludes that the withdrawal of medically administered fluids and nutrition for pediatric patients is ethically acceptable in limited circumstances. Ethics [...]
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
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”. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Diekema in the Hauser controversy
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, medical decision-making, medical ethics, parental decision making, pillow angel on May 30, 2009 | Comments Off
“Parents’ Rights, Judges’ Rules”. It is the title of a Newsweek story of May 19. The story is about the 13-year-old boy Daniel Hauser and his parents resisting chemotherapy for his Hodgkin’s lymphoma. There’s something that intrigues me very much in this article. Dr. Diekema is quoted here as saying, “If a parent makes a decision [...]
Mysteries and questions surrounding Dr. Gunther’s suicide
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the media, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Gunther's suicide, ethics, growth attenuation, Gunther, medical ethics, pillow angel on May 24, 2009 | Comments Off
1. Why was his suicide left unreported for 10 days?
Dr. Gunther killed himself on September 30, 2007. It was reported on October 10 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times. Why did it left unreported for 10 days?
2. Why did the Seattle Post-Intelligencer know the doctor’s death and wait without reporting it?
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer [...]
Mysteries and questions surrounding the Katie Thorpe case
Posted in Ashley's father, Dr. Diekema's explanation, information, the media, tagged Alison Thorpe, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, Katie Thorpe, medical decision-making, medical ethics, mentally disabled, parental decision making, pillow angel, the Katie case on April 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Many people may think that the Katie Thorpe case in UK is an isolated episode, though it was strongly influenced by the preceding Ashley case. Many may also believe that Alison Thorpe, Katie’s mother appeared in the media for the first time in October 2007 when her request for Katie’s hysterectomy was reported. Actually, Alison had been [...]
