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NHS: Starving Alfie to death was just 'redirecting care'

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Bro. Curtis

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So, in your opinion, could he have been moved to Italy, and to what end?
I wasn’t there. But I imagine if a few orderlies can do it than it shouldn’t have been and insurmountable problem.

“To what end” might be the silliest question I have ever been asked
 

Matt Black

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I wasn’t there. But I imagine if a few orderlies can do it than it shouldn’t have been and insurmountable problem.

“To what end” might be the silliest question I have ever been asked
Not silly at all: what good would it have done? All that Italians were offering was palliative care, which Alder Hey ended up giving anyway. There was no offer of effective treatment, of a cure.
 

Matt Black

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Name a cop that had shot an innocent black man and got away with it.
Trouble is, that's kind of a trick question isn't it? You see, if I was to give an example of say, Darren Wilson, you could say, "Aha! But Michael Brown was clearly reaching for the cop's gun and therefore can't have been innocent." Likewise if I cite the case of Jeronimo Yanez, because he was acquitted you could argue "Well, clearly the court found something to exonerate him". Similarly with Betty Jo Shelby. But if I move on to more recent cases such as the death of Stephon Clark or Danny Ray Thomas, you could say that they're still under investigation and the officers concerned might not get away with it. You and I can put whatever spin we like on such cases....and our dialogue of the deaf will continue unabated
 

Martin Marprelate

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So if you have no medical training you should have no say in your child’s treatment ? Can’t get another opinion/ seek other treatment. Not unless you have (I’m sure state-sponsored) medical training.

Wow.
As I stated earlier, not only could Alfie's parents get a second opinion, but they did. They even got the Italian doctors to examine Alfie, and they all agreed that the poor boy had massive brain damage and that there was no possible cure. The issue was whether it was in Alfie's interest to have him sent for palliative care in Italy or for him to receive palliative care in England. There is no question of him have been deprived of fluids or food without his parents' consent.

I am unhappy that Alfie's parents weren't allowed to take him to Italy, but you need to understand that the Pope was not offering him treatment, only palliative care.
 

Bro. Curtis

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Trouble is, that's kind of a trick question isn't it? You see, if I was to give an example of say, Darren Wilson, you could say, "Aha! But Michael Brown was clearly reaching for the cop's gun and therefore can't have been innocent." Likewise if I cite the case of Jeronimo Yanez, because he was acquitted you could argue "Well, clearly the court found something to exonerate him". Similarly with Betty Jo Shelby. But if I move on to more recent cases such as the death of Stephon Clark or Danny Ray Thomas, you could say that they're still under investigation and the officers concerned might not get away with it. You and I can put whatever spin we like on such cases....and our dialogue of the deaf will continue unabated
The fact that you think Darren Wilson didn’t face any consequence is enough for me to disregard the rest of your post.
 
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Earth Wind and Fire

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As I stated earlier, not only could Alfie's parents get a second opinion, but they did. They even got the Italian doctors to examine Alfie, and they all agreed that the poor boy had massive brain damage and that there was no possible cure. The issue was whether it was in Alfie's interest to have him sent for palliative care in Italy or for him to receive palliative care in England. There is no question of him have been deprived of fluids or food without his parents' consent.

I am unhappy that Alfie's parents weren't allowed to take him to Italy, but you need to understand that the Pope was not offering him treatment, only palliative care.
OK, but who stopped them from taking the child to Italy and why? Matt suggested it was because there would be pain and trauma done to the boy in transporting the boy to Italy. Do you agree
 

Matt Black

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The fact that you think Darren Wilson didn’t face any consequence is enough for me to disregard the rest of your post.
You're twisting your own words now and moving your own goalposts from "got away with it" to "didn't face any consequences". That's enough for me to disregard whatever point you thought you had.
 

Matt Black

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As I stated earlier, not only could Alfie's parents get a second opinion, but they did. They even got the Italian doctors to examine Alfie, and they all agreed that the poor boy had massive brain damage and that there was no possible cure. The issue was whether it was in Alfie's interest to have him sent for palliative care in Italy or for him to receive palliative care in England. There is no question of him have been deprived of fluids or food without his parents' consent.

I am unhappy that Alfie's parents weren't allowed to take him to Italy, but you need to understand that the Pope was not offering him treatment, only palliative care.
The parents commissioned at least two independent medical reports into his condition ie: had him examined by two independent medical consultants who both agreed that there was no hope of recovery. So it's a myth that there were "no second opinions".
 

Matt Black

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You have no right to tell anyone that he cannot go to other medical treatment. Alder Hey Hospital has a bad record, as you know.
No I don't have the right to determine someone else's medical treatment. But neither do you have the right to force medical treatment on someone who can't consent to it. In any event that's a straw man since I wasn't denying him that right, but questioning the benefit of it as asserted by others
 
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