I just found some new pieces of information from 2007 and am extremely interested in what Dr. Wilfond says there. One is his 2007 article published in the Hastings Center Report, The Ashley case: the public response and policy implications. Basically he asserts in the article that the Ashley treatment is no different from giving [...]
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Dr. Wilfond’s extraordinary excuse : the 06 paper “based on fading memories”
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, pillow angel on December 22, 2010 |
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: [...]
Reading “Ashley Revisited: A Response to the Critics” by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, The doctors' medical paper, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, Diekema, disabilities, disability rights, Dr. Diekema, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, Gunther, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, parental decision making, pillow angel, Seattle Children's, University of Washington on November 15, 2009 |
Reading the article “Ashley Revisited: A Response to the Critics” written by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost and published in AJOB in April, I find same dishonesties repeated from the initial 2006 paper by Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema. I also find new pieces of information revealed for the first time and newly altered explanation. But it [...]
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, generalization of growth attenuation, Money, 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 |
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 [...]
The damage the Ashley case has done and damages it can still do
Posted in generalization of growth attenuation, the media, the special ethics committee, Uncategorized, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, medical ethics, pillow angel on May 1, 2009 |
I have been following the Ashley case for more than 2 years. I have been reading about other cases as well. Looking back on the Ashley case after so many cases of Emilio Gonzales, Ruben Navarro, Sam Golubchuk, Amber Hartland, Karen Weber, Lauren Richardson, Janet Rivera, David Coronado Jr., O.T. , Kaylee Wallace, Annie Farlow and [...]
Behind the tightly closed door of the special ethics committee
Posted in the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley, Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, ethics committee, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, mastectomy, medical decision-making, medical ethics, mentally disabled, pillow angel, Seattle Children's, University of Washington on March 8, 2009 |
I have recently posted two entries of links to information in the very early stage of the controversy. They will be followed by more. Some articles and stories among them carry very important pieces of information, maybe even crucial to understand this case. Here is one that I recommend anybody seriously interested in this case to [...]
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 [...]
The connotation of CNN’s question; Will you consider revealing your identity?
Posted in Ashley's father, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, disabilities, disability rights, growth attenuation, pillow angel on December 26, 2008 |
In the email interview with Ashley’s parents this March, CNN asked “Will you consider revealing your identity?” CNN interviewed Dr. Diekema right in the middle of the heated controversy at the beginning of 2007. They also sent written questions to the parents and got their answers, some of which were introduced in the [...]
What was the committee conclusion? What kind of “consensus” was it?
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, disabilities, Dr. Diekema, ethics, growth attenuation, involuntary sterilization, pillow angel on August 30, 2008 |
Dr. Gunther and Dr. Diekema wrote in their initial paper that it had been the ethics committee’s “consensus” to approve the parents’ requests as “ethically appropriate”. The minute of the committee also says that it was the “consensus.” It was the consensus of the Committee members that the potential long term benefit to Ashley herself [...]
ACOG Opinion “Sterilization of Women, Including Those With Mental Disabilities
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, information, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, ethics, ethics committee, hysterectomy, involuntary sterilization, pillow angel on July 21, 2008 |
In July 2007, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists updated their ethics committee opinion “Sterilization of Women, Including Those With Mental Disabilities” in Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Second Edition, 2004. You will find the updated version here. I find some parts of the opinion particularly relevant to the Ashley case. [...]
