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Charlie Gard

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    #81
    It's over.

    Parents have withdrawn their case.

    Heard rumours that Great Ormond Street upset parents when other university hospitals treating children with rare conditions don't.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #82
      Originally posted by vwdan View Post
      Awful situation ...
      Very good post
      Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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        #83
        Well the treatment may have worked early on, but it's too late now with all this legal dithering.
        What happens in General, stays in General.
        You know what they say about assumptions!

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          #84
          Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
          Well the treatment may have worked early on, but it's too late now with all this legal dithering.
          The worse thing is there is no legal aid for these type of cases so the lawyers for Charlie Gard and parents acted pro-bono.

          Also the hospital dithered not the legal system. They should have gone to mediation then court asap when they realised the parents didn't agree with them.

          The legal system in this country and ECHR did what they were suppose to do - uphold the rights of the child to not suffer cruel treatment.
          "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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            #85
            I suspect the problem was not so much their assessment of the case but probably the rather arrogant rude manner in which the family was treated in daring to question the authority of the Doctors.
            I'm alright Jack

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              #86
              Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
              I suspect the problem was not so much their assessment of the case but probably the rather arrogant rude manner in which the family was treated in daring to question the authority of the Doctors.
              Yep.

              Some doctors have no bedside manner.

              They also think people are thick without establishing whether the person is or not first simply because they don't look or sound like them.
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                #87
                Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
                I suspect the problem was not so much their assessment of the case but probably the rather arrogant rude manner in which the family was treated in daring to question the authority of the Doctors.
                No, the problem is this:

                When the hospital was informed that the Professor had new laboratory findings causing
                him to believe NBT would be more beneficial to Charlie than he had previously opined,
                GOSH’s hope for Charlie and his parents was that that optimism would be confirmed.
                It was, therefore, with increasing surprise and disappointment that the hospital listened
                to the Professor’s fresh evidence to the Court. On 13 July he stated that not only had he
                not visited the hospital to examine Charlie but in addition, he had not read Charlie’s
                contemporaneous medical records or viewed Charlie’s brain imaging or read all of the
                second opinions about Charlie’s condition
                (obtained from experts all of whom had
                taken the opportunity to examine him and consider his records) or even read the Judge’s
                decision made on 11 April. Further, GOSH was concerned to hear the Professor state,
                for the first time, whilst in the witness box, that he retains a financial interest in some
                of the NBT compounds
                he proposed prescribing for Charlie. Devastatingly, the
                information obtained since 13 July gives no cause for optimism. Rather, it confirms that
                whilst NBT may well assist others in the future, it cannot and could not have assisted
                Charlie.
                His parents have been given false hope by a doctor on another continent who hasn't even looked at the evidence properly and has a vested interest in selling the magic miracle drugs that he's selling.

                Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

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                  #88
                  Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
                  I suspect the problem was not so much their assessment of the case but probably the rather arrogant rude manner in which the family was treated in daring to question the authority of the Doctors.
                  Doctors these days are expected to cure anything and everything. They cannot win.

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                    #89
                    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                    Doctors these days are expected to cure anything and everything. They cannot win.
                    No they are not.
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                      #90
                      Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                      No they are not.
                      Oh yes they are.

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