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 [...]
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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, ethics, bioethics, pillow angel, disabilities, disability rights, growth attenuation, hysterectomy, Ashley X, involuntary sterilization, breast bud removal, medical ethics on September 5, 2009 | Comments Off
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, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, bioethics, breast bud removal, disabilities, disability rights, ethics, growth attenuation, medical ethics, pillow angel on May 1, 2009 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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, Money, investigation, 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 | Comments Off
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 last [...]
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 | Comments Off
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 Larry King Live [...]
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 | Comments Off
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 outweighed the [...]
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 | Comments Off
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. For example;
The presence of a [...]
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 [...]
The court opinion on the Illinois involuntary sterilization case
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, information, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley X, best interest, guardianship, involuntary sterilization, K. E. J., substituted judgement on May 7, 2008 | Comments Off
update: August 29, 2008
It’s turned out that Dr. Diekema himself wrote a paper on involuntary sterilization of mentally disabled persons in 2003. For details, visit the posts Dr. Diekema’s own conditions disapprove Ashley’s hysterectomy and Dr. Diekema’s official views on involuntary strilization: Why did he do everything he himself had said “Don’t” without doing things [...]
There was a lot more going on than the hospital’s building purchase
Posted in Ashley's father, Money, the special ethics committee, tagged Ashley treatment, Ashley X, disabilities, ethics, growth attenuation, pillow angel on April 19, 2008 | Comments Off
In the post, “Facts about the Seattle Hospital and Money,” I pointed out the long and close relationship between the Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Especially the fact that the hospital was getting ready for the purchase of two downtown buildings with the money collected [...]
