"He [Justice Hayden] has asked for Alder Hey doctors to give their views on them, because he could not easily reconcile what he saw of Alfie with some of their evidence about his condition"
>That's judge-speak for 'Are you taking the p**s?' btw
#AlfiesArmyhttps://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/powerful-videos-alfie-evans-forced-14264767 …
Yes, but we all saw how that variation in opinion played out with Ashya King. I know it won't go down well, but knowledgeable patients are less willing to take a doctor's word as fact any more. And not based on some ideological whim, but bitter experience. I'd be one of them.
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This is no way comparable to Aysha King. The issue here is medical futility and our understanding of that.
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Interesting you should see it that way. Was medical futility not exactly the same argument put forward in the Aysha King case? Followed by an international man hunt for the uncompliant parents? Didn't turn out to be as 'futile' as they'd insisted though!https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ashya-king-is-cancer-free-9813409 …
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No, the issue wasn't futility. Aysha had a plan of treatment ( radiotherapy ) in the U.K. but the parents wanted him to have proton beam radiotherapy rather than traditional. He wasn't ventilated , unable to breathe and over 70% of his brain wasn't non functioning.
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