I just read Dr. Lantos’ commentary to the AJOB article “Ashley Revisited” by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost. Dr. Lantos virtually pointed out the fact that the doctors’ justification has been full of deceptions. It’s the fact that I have been documenting in my blog and I’m so glad that someone officially wrote in an [...]
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On some misinformation in Dr. Lantos’ marvelous commentary to the Diekema & Fost article
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, investigation, The doctors' medical paper, the WPAS report, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, Dr. Diekema, ethics committee, growth attenuation, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel, WPAS on February 17, 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 [...]
What Dr. Diekema spoke and wrote right after the joint press conference of May 8, 2007
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, information, investigation, the WPAS report, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, medical ethics, pillow angel, WPAS on March 27, 2009 |
Deikema told CNN the ethics committee recognized that Washington state law was not perfectly clear with regard to whether a court order would be necessary to do the hysterectomy in someone who could not consent to the procedure. (CNN, May８, 2007) One of those authors, Dr. Doug Diekema, the hospital’s primary ethics consultant on the case, [...]
Did the hospital back down on the agreement with WPAS?
Posted in investigation, the WPAS report, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, medical ethics, pillow angel, safeguards, Seattle Children's, WPAS on March 20, 2009 |
I have pointed out here that the Seattle Children’s Hospital agreed with WPAS on May 8, 2007 that they would “develop, adopt and implement a policy prohibiting growth-limiting medical intervention for individuals with developmental disabilities unless Children’s has received a valid order form a court of competent jurisdiction, not subject to appeal, authorizing such intervention [...]
The hospital promised no growth attenuation without court order in 2007
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, investigation, the WPAS report, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, desabilities, disability rights, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical ethics, pillow angel, Seattle Children's, University of Washington, WPAS on January 31, 2009 |
What follows is an excerpt from the WPAS investigative report on the Ashley case: In order to ensure that a court order is obtained before a sterilization or growth-limiting medical intervention is preformed on an individual with a developmental disability, Children’s Hospital has entered into an agreement with WPAS to take the following steps: [...]
What about conflicts of interest in ethics committees?
Posted in Ashley's father, Dr. Diekema's explanation, investigation, Money, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, desabilities, disability rights, ethics, ethics committee, ethics consultation, growth attenuation, medical decision-making, medical ethics, pillow angel on January 30, 2009 |
The growth attenuation working group’s opinion goes that there’s no need for physicians to seek court review because a hospital ethics committee with a variety of members will be good enough for consideration of a parental request for growth attenuation. That reminds me of the Biederman/Nemeroff scandals that have been going on for the [...]
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 |
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 [...]
