There were 20 members in the list when the Seattle Children’s Hospital announced the Seattle Growth Attenuation and Ethics Working Group in its website in December 2008. You can check the page below. http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/initiatives/bioethics/working-group/ In the article “Navigating Growth Attenuation in Children with Profound Disabilities” in the latest issue of the Hastings Center Report, the [...]
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Why did Mr. Carlson, author of the WPAS report, disappear from the working group?
Posted in generalization of growth attenuation, the WPAS report on December 6, 2010 |
Are they waiting for the 5-year agreement to expire?
Posted in generalization of growth attenuation, the WPAS report on November 8, 2010 |
Since I learned about the Hastings Center Report article of the growth attenuation working group, I have been wondering a lot about tenaciousness of the physicians involved in this case. And all of a sudden it dawned on me. Are they waiting? …… Are they waiting for the 5-year agreement with WPAS to expire…..? It [...]
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 |
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 [...]
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 [...]
The new growth attenuation paper by Dr. Diekema, Dr. Fost with others
Posted in Dr. Diekema's explanation, generalization of growth attenuation, The doctors' medical paper, 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 |
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 [...]
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: [...]
