As was mentioned in the post Dr. Diekema did hide the breast bud removal, when Dr. Carole Marcus criticized the doctors’ paper for its omission of Ashley’s breast bud removal, Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema wrote in their reply, “ Breast bud removal was a completely separate request and raised a different set of issues that were [...]
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When were they going to write a paper about the breast bud removal portion?
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the breast bud removal, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, breast bud removal, disabilities, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, pillow angel on August 14, 2008 | Comments Off
Dr. Diekema’s comment on genetic testing
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the breast bud removal, tagged Ashley treatment, ethics, pillow angel, disability rights, Ashley X, Dr. Diekema, breast bud removal, mastectomy on July 25, 2008 | Comments Off
The Seattle Children’s Hospital Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics is convening its fourth pediatric bioethics conference today and tomorrow. The conference theme this year is genetic testing in children. The real time live webcast is available on the site linked above.
Yesterday, Paul Nyhan of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who was going to cover it wrote a post [...]
It was “mastectomy”, not “breast bud removal” in 2004
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the breast bud removal, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, breast bud, breast bud removal, Dr. Diekema, ethics committee, mastectomy, medical ethics, pillow angel on July 10, 2008 | Comments Off
One of the questions about Ashley’s breast bud removal that have been nagging me is “Is breast bud a legitimate medical term at all?”
Does the term breast bud really refer to the subcutaneous, almond-sized tissue which contains the milk glands that Ashley’s father calls breast bud in his blog?
So many people including the doctors [...]
Dr. Diekema did hide the breast bud removal
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, the breast bud removal, tagged Ashley X, breast bud, Dr. Diekema, growth attenuation, pillow angel on June 9, 2008 | Comments Off
It’s been pointed out by Wesley J. Smith, Dr. Carole Marcus and some others that Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema didn’t mention the removal of Ashley’s breast buds in their paper. Dr. Marcus wrote a letter “Only Half the Story,” in the Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med magazine last June and criticised that their paper was “very [...]
