wendiesan
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The doctor's phone number is a lifeline for patients. This self-absorbed woman and the rest of her family, and anyone stupid enough to block that number, don't care about the living patients at CHO. I think she, and anyone who follows her, should be charged with harassment and endangerment of every person affected.
Although she has suffered a horrible shock, and in her grief cannot contain her anger, Nailah Winkfield DOES NOT have the right to endanger CHO patients by interfering with their treatment or with their doctors' abilities to plan the treatment of these children. Winkfield does not have the right to harass people who work in any capacity at CHO. She does not have the right to disrupt the focus of people who have their own families to care for by demanding that they pay attention to her and her grief. She does not have the right to slander any one. She does not have the right to never be upset by news she doesn't want to hear. She does not have the right to demand that hospital resources be indefinitely allocated to her daughter. Winkfield does not have the right to tell another mother that her living, seriously ill child must share a room with a corpse. She certainly has no right to expect doctors, nurses, psychologists, and other healthcare workers to play along with her fantasies.
A few predictions. Never again will any hospital in North America bend their rules except in extremely limited circumstances. In fact, rule bending may become almost non-existent as lawyers become more and more involved in protecting all those who work in the Healthcare Industry. Never again will disruptions of hospital routine be permitted--security's mandate will be boosted to permit instant escorting of demonstrators from the premises and not allowing them to re-enter. It will be easier for hospitals to have a protected zone into which people identified as disrespectful of the rights of others are not permitted. Non-hospital press conferences would no longer be allowed on hospital grounds, and it would be the burden of those presenting the conference to find a space to use for the event. Never again will a judge take sentimental holidays like Christmas into an equation when making decisions about whether a person is actually alive or is dead. I don't foresee corpses taking space in hospital ICUs. Instead, I see a hospice-like industry blooming which will keep bodies hooked up to machines for as long as the families and their insurance policies can pay for their upkeep.
IMO, Winkfield and her family are stirring up a lot of mud into the water when what is needed is the clarification of many issues surrounding Jahi's treatment before and during her operation by CHO staff and Jahi's GP, and then Jahi's treatment by CHO staff and Jahi's family during the period following her surgery. It is far from certain what happened during the post-operative phase of Jahi's care and to what extent the actions of Winkfield and other family members contributed to Jahi's heart attack, if at all.
To quote Lao-Tse, "Muddy waters, let stand, becomes clear." There is already enough anger and misunderstanding here. It's time for the circus to stop. The focus has to shift away from Jahi's mother's desire that her love will bring Jahi life once more. Clarity will only be possible, IMO, when hostilities between the family and the hospital cease.
JMO.
