"Our prognosis was wrong, but let's not go pointing fingers." https://twitter.com/kate____100/status/989546853116141568 …
Do you understand that there are different options that all fall under the umbrella of palliative care? By your logic they might as well take a hammer to the child's head since all outcomes leading to death are identical
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He is breathing, being fed and hydrated, being given anti-seizure medications, and pain relief is availabl if he needs it. This is what constitutes palliative care. What else can they offer?
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Yes, withholding oxygen and hydration for hours is such a humane way of practicing palliative care.
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Stopping feed before extubation is standard because if the child vomits it would cause distress, aspiration and infection. They did not know how long Alfie would breathe for. Since he breathed for longer than expected nutrition and hydration were restarted.
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And your assessment is that there is some objective scale of pain and dignity under which his current ordeal is objectively preferable to moving him to Italy. The fact that your entire timeline is devoted to defending the NHS is of course irrelevant to your impartiality here.
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If there was any benefit to Alfie I would support his move to Italy. But sadly there is not. He is getting palliative care here and hopefully they will get him home to spend precious time with him.
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Yes because we've already established that you do not distinguish between modes of palliative care and do not believe that parents should have a say in deciding it in the event of a dispute with the NHS
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No I do not believe it is any parents right to put a child through travel and surgery with a number of associated risks and triggering more seizures for their own albeit well intentioned reasons of keeping Alfie alive for a little longer when he is dying.
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I'm not sure on what basis you can conclude that the child would have suffered more being moved to Italy than he is suffering at present.
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Are you a palliative care specialist? If not your opinion means nothing to me. And before you ask, I do work in palliative care.
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Ooh checkmate.
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Don’t be so ridiculous
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The standard comeback from your side has been that the Italian hospital did not promise to do anything that would cure him and so was useless. Which suggests that you do not distinguish between different modes of palliative care since they all lead to death
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